Zambia is deeply concerned that climate change is posing a serious threat to the country's socio-economic developmental gains and has adopted a National Policy on Climate Change that provides a framework for a coordinated response to the climate challenge, he said....
Climate changeCrop productionMaizeBeansJust and Pope modelZambiaRainfed farming systems that are prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa are prone to climate change. Most studies have only estimated the impacts of climate change on agricultural productivity at a regional or national level. This overlooks ...
Climate changeIn this paper, we use an inductive approach and longitudinal analysis to explore political influences on the emergence and evolution of climate change adaptation policy and planning at national level, as well as the institutions within which it is embedded, for three countries in sub-...
According to the National Policy on Environment (NPE) document, the country at present faces daunting challenges of de-forestation at the rate of 250-300 thousand ha per year; land degradation in many places verging on desertification; wildlife depletion especially in the protected areas and all ...
Climate change has exacerbated encroachment in national parks and game management areas, as people are forced to invade protected areas with remaining forests, Nganga-Ziba said. Despite these challenges, she commended the Zambian government for its political will in combating poaching in the country'...
The climate change agenda in Zambia: National interests and the role of development cooperation In the past ten years a significant number of policies and projects have been implemented in African countries in order to address climate change. At the s... M Funder,C Mweemba,I Nyambe - 《Ame...
This article highlights the role of a group of actors whose practices have so far received little attention in the study of climate change governance, namely the public servants who are responsible for the everyday implementation of national climate change policies and associated programmes on the ...
National holiday: Independence Day, 24 October (1964) Constitution: 24 August 1991; amended in 1996 to establish presidential term limits Legal system: based on English common law and customary law; judicial review of legislative acts in an ad hoc constitutional council; has not accepted compuls...
Timely access to fertiliser emerges as one of the most robust determinants of yields and their resilience. These results have policy implications for targeted interventions to improve theproductivity and the resilience of smallholder agriculture in Zambia in the face of climate change. 展开 ...
The only time opposition parties are given program airtime on national radio and television is when they have paid for it as advertisements. The private media, especially the Post, continued to practice watchdog journalism, which has sometimes degenerated into insolence and insults against the ...