Essays about: "agrarian social movements"

Found 3 essays containing the words agrarian social movements.

  1. 1. Rural views on the transition from fossil-fuelled cars to electric cars

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Matilda Hedelin; [2022]
    Keywords : electric cars; fossil fuels; sociotechnical imaginaries; rural development;

    Abstract : This study highlights perspectives considering the transition from fossil-fueled cars to electric cars in the Swedish passenger car fleet. The perspectives origins from semi-structured interviews with six rural residents in Värmland, Sweden, and from examined editorials, news reporting and debate articles in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN). READ MORE

  3. 2. Farming for food? : local ways to enhance global food supply - and beyond : an ethnographic case study from a biodynamic community-supported farm in El Bolsón, Argentina

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Theres Konrad; [2015]
    Keywords : Argentina; community-supported agriculture CSA ; global food supply; power dynamics; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : A growing world population confronts humanity and the planet with several challenges due to its increased demand for food, space and energy, implying changes in land use. While agriculture currently provides enough food, it is destroying biodiversity and hence aggravates the planet ́s vulnerability to climate change. READ MORE

  4. 3. Gaining land and gaining ground? The Popular Agrarian Reform by the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) in Brazil

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Camila Da Cunha Almeida Azevedo; [2015]
    Keywords : agrarian question; agrarian reform; agrarian change; rural development; peasant movements; agrarian social movements; rural politics; territorial disputes; social conflict; land struggle; land occupation; MST; Brazil; Paraná; social change; agroecology; thematic analysis; Social Sciences; Agriculture and Food Sciences;

    Abstract : The Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), one of the most important movements in Brazil, known for its land occupations, recently launched proposals to implement a new Popular Agrarian Reform (PAR) project. Consequently, one must ask: is there need for agrarian reform (AR) in Brazil? This question must engage with another discussion, that of the development of capitalism in the countryside and its consequences for the peasantry - the agrarian question (AQ). READ MORE