Essays about: "indigenous farmers"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 essays containing the words indigenous farmers.

  1. 1. The new Italian take on food sovereignty : a discourse analysis of food sovereignty in different contexts

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

    Author : Diana Gafur; [2024]
    Keywords : food sovereignty; discourse theory; discourse analysis; chain of equivalence; nodal point; La Via Campesina; Italian Government; sustainability;

    Abstract : This research is investigating the Italian Government’s use of the food sovereignty discourse. This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of the semantic term and how its meaning changes in different contexts. Food sovereignty was originally coined by the “peasant movement” called La Via Campesina. READ MORE

  3. 2. Traditional Knowledge and Practices for Resilience to Climate Change in Nepal’s Mid-Hills: Perspectives from Darma and Madi Rural Municipalities

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Dina-Josepha Rodehorst; Tabitha Black-Lock; [2023]
    Keywords : Climate change; traditional knowledge; Indigenous knowledge; Nepal; resilience; agriculture; Magar; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : With climate change impacting countries around the world, rural communities in Nepal are among those most affected. As acknowledged by global climate discourses, traditional knowledge plays a vital role in understanding and adapting to climate change. READ MORE

  4. 3. Fulani Herdsmen and Indigenous Farmers Escalating Noxious Conflicts : Implications on Socioeconomic Development

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Sydney Okeh; [2022]
    Keywords : Conflict; Farmers; Fulani Herdsmen; Noxious;

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  5. 4. Agricultural resilience building at the farm level in Malawi : the relevance of indigenous knowledge

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Jana Schmidt; [2020]
    Keywords : climate change adaptation; agriculture; indigenous knowledge; resilience building; Malawi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Anthropogenic climate change poses new challenges to smallholder farmers in the Global South. At the farm level, science-based adaptation measures, as well as farmers’ autonomous responses based on indigenous knowledge, are simultaneously in use. READ MORE

  6. 5. Boundaries of Knowledge : Foreign-Local Knowledge Exchange through Community Cooperation in Rural Guatemala

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Johan Blad; [2019]
    Keywords : foreign-local knowledge exchange; social learning systems; agriculture; community; Guatemala;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the learning process between foreign and local knowledge in a community of organic farmers by the name Atitlán Organics in Tzununa, rural Guatemala. Foreign settlers with formal education and contemporary farming experience work alongside indigenous local Guatemalan farmers in this community, which also takes on international volunteer workers. READ MORE