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Topic: Southern Province, Zambia


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  Southern Province, Zambia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Southern Province is one of Zambia's nine provinces.
The Zambezi River forms the Southern border of the Southern Province.
The Eastern boundary between Zambia and Zimbabwe is formed by the Zambezi and Kariba Dam.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_Province,_Zambia   (207 words)

  
 Music of Zambia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Zambia has a rich heritage of music which falls roughly into three categories: traditional, popular and Christian.
Traditional Zambian music is rooted in the beliefs and practices of Zambia's various ethnic groups and has suffered some decline in the last three decades.
Although most early Christian missionaries to Zambia frowned on the use of traditional instruments in worship, the use of drums has become increasingly more common since the middle of the twentieth century.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Music_of_Zambia   (1610 words)

  
 Zambia
For many, Zambia is “the real Africa” with genuinely wild national parks, and some of the finest scenery in the region.
Zambia’s economy is heavily dependent on the mining of copper, cobalt, and zinc.
Zambia embarked on a privatisation drive of state-owned companies in 1992, a year after President Frederick Chiluba took office.
us-africa.tripod.com /zambia.html   (1642 words)

  
 Southern Africa: Zambia
The food-supply situation in Zambia continues to be tight and is raising the prospect of severe food shortages and hunger among as many as 3 million people -- nearly a third of the total population.
The maize crop in Southern and Western provinces is almost entirely failed; most farmers predicted harvests of 1 to 3 percent of a reasonably good year.
The food-supply situation in Zambia continues to be tight and is raising the prospect of severe food shortages and hunger among as many as 3 million people -- nearly a third of the total population -- in the coming months.
www.care.org /newsroom/specialreports/southernafrica/zambia.asp   (1164 words)

  
 ZAMBIA, Landmine Monitor Report 2001
Zambia signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 12 December 1997 and deposited its instruments of ratification at the United Nations on 23 February 2001.
During the Second Meeting of States Parties in September 2000, Zambia's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Valentine Kayope stated that as a result of the wars of liberation in Southern Africa, Zambia's borders are littered with many mines, and a number of development projects are stalled due to the fear of the weapon.
In October 2000, a member of Parliament for Siavonga, a mine infested constituency in the southern province of Zambia, Frederick Hapunda urged the government to invite former freedom fighters in the region to identify areas inflicted with mines.
www.icbl.org /lm/2001/zambia   (2403 words)

  
 Integrating Water Conservation and Population Strategies on the Kafue Flats, Harry N. Weza Chabwela et al.
Zambia may have substantial surface and groundwater resources, but the problem of water is that it may not be in the form and quantity in which it is wanted by Zambiaís nearly eight million people for domestic, industrial, and agricultural purposes.
The Kafue River extends for 1,577 kilometers, rising from the northwestern and Copperbelt provinces of Zambia near the border with Zaire to the Zambezi River.
In Southern Province in 1969, the population was 96,000.
www.aaas.org /international/ehn/waterpop/zambia.htm   (6962 words)

  
 Immunization against theileriosis in the Southern Province of Zambia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
According to the annual reports of the Veterinary Department of Zambia, no cases of the disease were diagnosed within the country from 1928 to 1945.
In 1946 theileriosis was diagnosed in Mbala District, Northern Province, and in 1947 in Chipata District, Eastern Province.
In 1977/78 a malignant form of theileriosis was detected in the Hufwa area of Monze District, in Southern Province.
www.fao.org /Wairdocs/ILRI/x5549E/x5549e0o.htm   (963 words)

  
 Zambia, Landmine Monitor Report 2004
In June 2004, Zambia reported that a 126-kilometer road in Southern Province had been demined to facilitate the continuation of a World-Bank funded development project, and a 14-kilometer road in Lusaka Province was cleared to open up the area to tourism and agricultural development.
Zambia stated in its initial Article 7 report that its entire stockpile of 6,691 antipersonnel mines would be retained for training purposes.
Zambia reported that more recently a 126-kilometer road in Southern Province had been demined to facilitate the continuation of that project, as well as the construction of the Kakaro–Kavalamanja Road.
www.icbl.org /lm/2004/zambia   (3157 words)

  
 Food Crisis - Zambia
Cholwe Nan’gamba’s father is schoolteacher in Nalube Centre, a cluster of 9 villages near Choma, in southern Zambia.
Zambia is the only nation of the six crisis countries of southern Africa that has imposed a ban on GMO food aid.
Chipo and Margaret have far surpassed Zambia’s median life expectancy, but have found themselves in the precarious position of having to raise three of their grandchildren when they are old and frail.
www.wvi.org /wvi/africa_food_crisis/zambia_food_crisis.htm   (2204 words)

  
 AssessmingUseZambia
Southern Province used to be the grain belt for Zambia.
As shown in the Activities Audit submitted with the Southern Province trip report of March 2004, a range of complete, in progress and planned resource activities complement this work as well as IRI’s work in forecast improvement for the region (see USAID report Q2FY04).
This Statement of Work is based on a preliminary gap analysis of current and planned activities around forecast application in Southern Province, Zambia, undertaken November-December 2003, an initial SOW drafted in December 2003, continued correspondence with key partners, and a pre-research feasibility trip undertaken March 15-20th 2004 (see Trip Report, dated April 12th 2004).
iri.columbia.edu /africa/project/AssessingUseZambia   (2549 words)

  
 Social components of migration: Experiences from Southern Province, Zambia Human Organization - Find Articles
Until recently, when droughts and cattle diseases began to plague the area, Southern Province was known for its ideal farming conditions.
Since the late 1980s, Southern Province farmers have begun migrating to frontier areas farther north where land and rain are plentiful.
In Zambia's Southern Province, the increasing pace of migration to frontier farming areas in the north raises questions about both the causes and effects of large-scale voluntary migration.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3800/is_200004/ai_n8898729   (874 words)

  
 WFP - Zambia
The Southern Province is the worst affected, with an estimated 60 percent of the people needing relief food.
This year, large parts of the same provinces were hit by erratic rains and long dry spells at a crucial growing stage, exacerbating an already precarious situation.
Zambia has one of the lowest population densities in the region, and thus distances to markets are greater than neighbouring countries.
www.wfp.org /newsroom/in_depth/Africa/sa_zambia020705.htm   (970 words)

  
 Zambia, Africa - Africa - Travel Guide and Tourist Information
Zambia is a landlocked country located between the southern rim of the Zaire Basin and the Zambezi River.
Zambia has land borders with Tanzania to the northeast, Malawi to the east, Mozambique and Zimbabwe to the southeast, Botswana and Namibia to the south, Angola on the west and Zaire to the northwest.
Lake Bangweulu and the swamps at its southern end cover an area of 3,800 sq miles and are drained by the Luapula River.
www.africaguide.com /country/zambia/index.htm   (310 words)

  
 Food Shortage in Southern Africa
Much of southern Africa continues to face severe food shortages, largely the result of one of the worst droughts in a decade.
In response, CARE is working with communities in southern Africa to address their most threatening problems, to harness the ingenuity and determination of local people to find lasting solutions to poverty.
In Zambia, we're helping feed approximately 150,000 people in three of the hardest-hit areas of Southern province, and expanded in 2002 to three new districts.
www.care.org /newsroom/specialreports/southernafrica/index.asp   (651 words)

  
 AIDS/Zambia Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Zambia, like other countries in the region, has seen a rising incidence of tuberculosis in humans over the past few years.
The Zambia AIDS-related tuberculosis (ZAMBART) is a clinical trial study This research assessed both the association between HIV and tuberculosis in Zambia and subsequently at the effects of HIV on presentation, management, outcome and infectiousness.
In Zambia donors are funding the HIV testing of up to 5 per cent of the adult population of Lusaka.
www.medguide.org.zm /aidsbibl/tb.htm   (3973 words)

  
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Cecelia, from Chilalantambo village in Zambia’s Southern Province, is an AIDS orphan: one of some 800,000 Zambian children – 18% of all children under the age of 15 – who have lost one or both of their parents to AIDS.
All the children are residents of Kamwala and Misisi shanty towns in Lusaka, and a town and small village – Choma and Chilalantambo – in Southern Province.
Although primary school fees in Zambia were abolished in 2002, in practice many schools still charge for uniforms and equipment.
www.thezambian.com /reports/aids.aspx   (1041 words)

  
 The Real Story Behind the Food Crisis in Zambia MWANANYANDA MBIKUSITA LEWANIKA / Synthesis/Regeneration n.32, 19sep03
Zambia experienced a food crisis in the 2001–2002 agricultural season due to unfavorable weather conditions.
The food crisis was most acute in the Southern Province of Zambia and to some varying degree in parts of Eastern, Central, Western and Lusaka Provinces.
Zambia, like most African nations, currently has no regulatory system and appropriate infrastructure to cope with the scientific assessment that came with the introduction of GE products.
www.mindfully.org /Food/2003/Zambia-Food-Crisis19sep03.htm   (1787 words)

  
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Harrison Banda, executive director of the Millers Association of Zambia, welcomed the extension of the import programme, originally scheduled to end on 31 December, because it would allow millers enough time to bring in much needed stocks.
According to the Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU), of the 200,000 mt of duty-free maize the government had allowed millers to import from Africa's largest maize grower, South Africa, only about 7,000 mt had been trucked in by 6 December, leaving a shortfall of about 193,000 mt.
Although the food crisis has hit rural southern Zambia hard, it has remained unnoticeable in the capital, Lusaka, where fast-food shops are packed with diners and supermarkets are buzzing with big-spending Christmas shoppers.
irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=50824&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa   (422 words)

  
 AEGiS-IRIN: ZAMBIA: Falling life expectancy
Since the beginning of 2002, Zambia has had an epidemic of measles that started in the Western province, with 8,000 reported cases, and then spread to Lusaka and Central province.
Health authorities were alarmed at the prospect of the outbreak reaching the Southern province where measles coverage rates were low - below 60 percent - acute malnutrition was rapidly rising and serious water shortages were developing, UNICEF said.
Zambia is scheduled to conduct nationwide measles immunisation early in 2003 to reach the remaining provinces.
www.aegis.com /news/irin/2003/IR030103.html   (592 words)

  
 ALCOM News 25 Article 3
In 1995 the Small Water Bodies project of ALCOM selected six dams in Southern Province, Zambia to be part of a set of similar pilot reservoirs in Malawi and Zimbabwe.
In Southern Province Zambia, six of the 12 dams had been identified as having unfilled important niches and were stocked with Oreochromis andersonii, O. macrochir or Tilapia rendalli.
All ALCOM activities in Southern Province have only been possible through close collaboration with the Department of Fisheries in Choma, Monze, Kalomo and Chilanga which has provided ALCOM with continuous support since the commencement of the programme.
www.fao.org /waicent/faoinfo/fishery/alcom/alc25ar3.htm   (864 words)

  
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In Zambia the future of the cereal pipeline depended on the outcome of decisions on genetically modified (GM) food, WFP said.
According to WFP's situation report, a recent rapid health assessment in districts in Zambia's Southern province showed a very high prevalence of pellagra, which indicates a general food shortage.
The report said that WFP was focusing on beneficiary registration and verification in anticipation of increased distribution this month of over 30,000 mt of food for two million people in 28 districts - double the tonnage distributed in September.
irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=30406&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa   (722 words)

  
 Summer field training - Zambia
In the new thrust of the longitudinal research project among Gwembe Tonga people of Southern Province, Zambia, we examine the relationship between livelihood strategies and nutritional outcome through ethnographic, anthropometric, health and dietary data in a Zambian community with high rates of malnutrition, and a history of population mobility.
Good nutritional status is made possible via nutrition security, which can only be achieved through food coupled with a healthy environment in terms of sanitation, water, health services, and educational opportunities.  Livelihood security underpins both food and nutrition security, and accounts for one’s ability to successfully adapt to local, national and global conditions.
With one of the highest deforestation rates in the world and significant migration underway, Zambia provides a unique case where a chain of related migration events in Southern province is tied to environmental degradation.
people.brandeis.edu /~rgodoy/NSfTraining/zambia.htm   (376 words)

  
 Economic and social components of migration in two regions of Southern Province, Zambia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Until recently when droughts and cattle diseases have begun to plague the area, Southern Province was known for its ideal farming conditions.
As the section on Zambia's internal migration patterns demonstrates, mobile populations are part of Zambia's history.
Following the methodology section introducing the two migration studies on which this article is based, I give a brief history of internal migration in Zambia as background to the current movement patterns found in Southern Province.
www.eldis.org /static/DOC5607.htm   (643 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Zambia hit by Aids and famine
It is one of the most beautiful places in Southern Africa, but today many of the people who live alongside Lake Kariba are struggling to survive.
Zambia's Southern Province, which includes Lake Kariba, is worst affected.
John has lived with Aids for five years in a village in southern Zambia which has been severely affected by drought.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/2025611.stm   (577 words)

  
 Work with SAPEP in Zambia
For her placement, Helen worked with a 'peer education programme' working in Zambia's Southern Province that is concerned with health promotion, tackling the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Jackson (2002) reports that gender inequity and inequality are the critical factors driving the spread of HIV/AIDS in the whole of Africa and that the global AIDS epidemic is driven by men.
The predominant tribe in the Monze and Mazabuka districts of the Southern Province is Tongan.
www.pepaids.org /workwithsapep.htm   (2836 words)

  
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The Falls are higher on the Zambian side (70m on the Zimbabwe side "Devils Cataract" reaching up to 110m at the Main Falls which is on the Zambian side.
Low water; Zambia has it's advantages, there are pools you can swim in right at the edge of the Falls on the Zambian side, On the Zimbabwe side as it is always high water there is no safe place to swim with either crocodiles or the current to contend with.
Entrance fee is only US$5.00 on the Zambia side whereas in Zimbabwe ranges from 10 to 20 US, during low water.
www.thezambian.com /Cities/southern.aspx   (406 words)

  
 Engineers Without Borders Canada - Alternative Crops - Zambia
EWB volunteer Mike Quinn is currently working with CARE Zambia, assisting in a market driven sorghum pilot project.
The Southern Province of Zambia has been hit with frequent droughts, suffering an estimated loss of 40-65% of crops last year.
Mike is optimistic that this group of farmers will profit from growing sorghum in the short-term and he is working closely with them to ensure their successful entry into various markets.
www.ewb.ca /en/whatwedo/overseas/projects/sorghumzambia.html   (507 words)

  
 ZambiaSossa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
ZAMBIA boat in floodplain between chama and mushota villages
ZAMBIA boat in floodplain between chama and mushota villages.bmp
ZAMBIA, kariba dam, on the southern border with zimbabwe
groups.msn.com /ZambiaSossa/shoebox.msnw?pgmarket=en-us   (47 words)

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