Essays about: "Agrarian Livelihoods"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words Agrarian Livelihoods.

  1. 1. The paradox of community seed systems : a case of Lumezi and Chasefu districts

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

    Author : Clement Raphael Banda; [2022]
    Keywords : community-based seed systems; seed; seed sovereignty; Zambia;

    Abstract : Availability of quality seeds is very key to production in agrarian societies such as Zambia. However, the focus on cereals like maize, a staple, has negatively affected the availability of quality seed for other crops like legumes which are equally important. This has been one of the reasons the community seed initiatives have been necessitated. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. En märr som hette Mor : de sista härjedalska hästkörarnas berättelser från tiden innan skogsbrukets mekanisering

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Jon Nordström; [2021]
    Keywords : skogshistoria; timmerkörning; timmerhästar; Härjedalen;

    Abstract : I slutet av 1700-talet och början av 1800-talet skedde en förändring i det agrara samhället och i det norrländska samhället. Från att bondesamhället innan varit nästintill helt självförsörjande öppnades genom industrialiseringen en möjlighet till annan utkomst i form av lönearbete. READ MORE

  5. 4. Family farm and financial asset : external land ownership and family agriculture on the Swedish Plains

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

    Author : Hedvig Goldhahn; [2021]
    Keywords : financialization; family farming; land ownership; tenancy; Uppsala Akademiförvaltning;

    Abstract : In Sweden, the potential deregulation of the land market has been discussed in recent years, motivated by the increasing demand for external capital in agriculture. Corporate entities’ are currently restricted from purchasing farmland by the Swedish Land Acquisition Act. READ MORE

  6. 5. Indigeneity as a base for rural development : a case study of the indigenous community Ramada, eastern Bolivia

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

    Author : Line Munk; [2020]
    Keywords : Bolivia; TCOs; Indigenous peoples; Agrarian question; Rural development; Agrarian political economy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Central to the field of agrarian political economy, is rural development and capitalism’s advancement in the countryside and its consequences for the peasantry, ‘the agrarian question’. With the present case study, I examine the interplay between social relations of production and agrarian change in eastern Bolivia. READ MORE