Essays about: "Smallholder farmers"

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1. 16. Policies of Yesterday Cultivating the Fields of Tomorrow : Changes and Continuities in the Ethiopian State’s Conceptualisations of LargeScale Farms, Smallholder Farmers, and the Role of the State within National Development Plans from 1950s to 2010s

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

   Author : Jim Hagström; [2022]
   Keywords : Long-Term Agricultural Development; Food Regimes; Discourse Analysis; Multiple Temporalities; Ethiopia;

   Abstract : This thesis historicizes the conceptualisations of large-scale farms, smallholder farmers, and the role of the state in the Ethiopian national development plans from 1957 to 2015. It engages with the food regime framework in discussing the role of the state in contemporary agrarian change and places itself within the debate of the corporate food regime. READ MORE

3. 17. Putting down new roots: The political economy of relevance for ‘climate-smart’ agriculture in rural Uganda.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Johannes Temm; [2022]
   Keywords : climate-smart agriculture; political ecology; smallholder adaptation; phenomenology; land use management; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : A growing body of literature within political ecology is concerned with the exercise of political and economic power within climate change policies (Robbins, 2020). In this thesis, I explore the political economy of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), using methodological reflections and empirical material from a case study of a Ugandan smallholder agricultural community. READ MORE

4. 18. The Nature of Digital Extension Services in the Developing World

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Elliot Mackenzie; [2022]
   Keywords : Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The rapid diffusion of mobile phones and the internet in Kenya is hoped to be an effective solution to meeting the crucial information needs of smallholder farmers to improve their economic and environmental resilience. This thesis conducts a case study based on interviews with actors who provide digital agricultural extension services to farmers in Kenya to assess the Agricultural Innovation System (AIS), and its features and current trajectory. READ MORE

5. 19. Biosecurity and animal husbandry in goat herds in Zambia and Sweden : a comparative qualitative interview study

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Clinical Sciences

   Author : Gry Martineau; [2022]
   Keywords : biosecurity; animal health; animal husbandry; goat health; goat diseases; goat herding; Zambia; Sweden; qualitative research; farmers’ perceptions;

   Abstract : In Zambia, goats have an as important role for the wellbeing of humans as humans have for the goats they care for. Infectious diseases are common and can have devastating effects for the animals and thereby their owners and all others that benefit from these goats. READ MORE

6. 20. Rural Road Improvements and Local Agricultural Intensification: A Remote Sensing Evaluation in Mozambique

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Jeffrey Clark; Tamina Matti; [2022]
   Keywords : remote sensing; rural road improvements; agricultural output; Mozambique; economic development;

   Abstract : Transaction costs serve as an obstacle to competitive market exchanges in rural and remote areas around the world. Improvements to transportation infrastructure are hypothesized to lower these costs and help alleviate poverty among smallholder farmers. READ MORE