Essays about: "Biocultural Diversity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Biocultural Diversity.

  1. 1. Creation as Resistance: How small-scale farmers and food artisans collaboratively respond to the global food system by recultivating a traditional rye variety in Northeast Germany

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

    Author : Leo Baumgärtner; [2023]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how small-scale farmers and food artisans in Germany are impacted by and respond to the pressures of the global food system. It is based on the in-depth analysis of a case study of a recultivation effort of the traditional rye variety ‘Mecklenburger Marienroggen’ in Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Northeast Germany. READ MORE

  3. 2. We Are the Solution: Seed Sovereignty, Local Knowledge Systems and Women’s Liberation Through Rice Farming in Southern Senegal

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

    Author : Na Haby Stella Faye; [2023]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The system of capitalist agriculture increasingly shows its social, economic and ecological failures. Some of the alternatives are based on food and seed sovereignty. However, the knowledge systems underlying seed saving practices, especially in the West African context, have been overlooked. READ MORE

  4. 3. Protecting biocultural refugia? : Political ecology perspectives on sustainable food production in the context of two Swedish biosphere reserves

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi

    Author : Ella Hagberg; [2021]
    Keywords : biosphere reserve; food production; political ecology; biocultural refugia; biocultural diversity; biocultural heritage; traditional ecological knowledge;

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  5. 4. Exploring the phenomena “foraging” in urban green spaces : examples from Järva City District and Stockholm County

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Anja Moum Rieser; [2020]
    Keywords : biocultural diversity; public food; urban foraging; urban green spaces; urban green commons; wild food;

    Abstract : As cities globally experience rapid urbanization, the pressure on urban green areas increases and simultaneously opportunities for human-nature interactions decrease, which are crucial for urban citizens’ wellbeing. Urban foraging- the gathering of plant or fungal materials in urban areas- is a common human-nature interaction that has been inadequately studied and overlooked in urban policy, planning, and design. READ MORE

  6. 5. Ordinary and Extraordinary : Heritage plants and their farmers

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Rebecca Öhnfeldt; [2019]
    Keywords : Heritage plants; farming; agriculture; food security; biodiversity; plant and seed conservation; biocultural refugia; soil.;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how Swedish farmers, who have chosen to farm with heritage plant varieties, motivate their choices and how they as a result of their choices view themselves as farmers. This is investigated against present and future challenges regarding food security and the loss of agricultural biodiversity and biocultural heritage, which, in order to be faced, will require a wider range of plants in cultivation. READ MORE