Essays about: "agrarian change"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 34 essays containing the words agrarian change.

1. 1. Accessing credit through social relationships : a case study of cassava farmers in Central Uganda

   University essay from SLU/Department of Molecular Sciences

   Author : Susanna Larsson; [2023]
   Keywords : credit; access; agricultural market systems; value chain; moral economy; institutional bricolage;

   Abstract : The FAO aims to support local farmers in Nakasongola District, Uganda, to tap into value-added cassava market opportunities. This thesis critically examines farmers' experiences in these cassava markets, challenging classical economic assumptions that underpin the FAO project. READ MORE

3. 2. Decentralized renewable energy - an enabler for development in the agriculture sector in rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa?

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

   Author : Alva Ohlsson; Ellen Weckström; [2022-07-07]
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   Abstract : The majority of the globally poor population, characterized by agricultural dependency as well as energy poverty, is located in Sub-Saharan Africa. Previous research states that energy benefits agriculture sectors. One reason why the agrarian society lacks access to electricity is because of the insufficient infrastructure in the remote areas. READ MORE

4. 3. Improper Structural Transformation & Stagnant Manufacturing in Post-Independence India: The Role of Agriculture and Inter-Sectoral Linkages

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Sai Chandan Kotu; [2022]
   Keywords : Input-Output Matrices; Structural Transformation; Ordinary Least Squares; Agricultural Productivity; Capital Formation; Domestic-Market Linkages; Sustainable and Resilient Structural Change; Services-led growth.; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : India is witnessing an unconventional pattern of structural change – involving a shift to services-dominated economy at lower income per-capita than early industrialisers. Despite significant policy rhetoric on industrialisation, the sector’s share in both value-added and employment has stagnated remarkably. READ MORE

5. 4. 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

6. 5. Dialling up women farmers’ empowerment vis-à-vis agriculture: Exploring the effects of mobile phones in rural India

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Vanessa Berghoff; [2021]
   Keywords : agriculture; agricultural development; agricultural transformation; India; feminisation; farmer; women farmer; gender equality; empowerment; rural livelihoods; rural development; mobile phones; mobiles; smartphones; technology; ICT4D; ICT4Ag; mixed methods; quantitative methods; qualitative methods; case study; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Despite women being the backbone of the agricultural sector in India, the patriarchal agrarian system poses major obstacles and challenges specific to women farmers with consequences well beyond the individual. This research aims to explore how mobile phones can empower rural women vis-à-vis agriculture. READ MORE