Essays about: "Rural Development in Cambodia"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words Rural Development in Cambodia.

  1. 1. A fishery at risk and the limits to adaptation : a study of Cambodian Community Fishery organisations’ role in reducing livelihood vulnerability to climate change in their communities

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

    Author : Hanna Wessling; [2020]
    Keywords : livelihood vulnerability; climate change adaptation; community fisheries; Cambodia;

    Abstract : Cambodia’s small-scale fisheries support the livelihoods of a major part of the country's rural population and play a crucial role in food security. Climate change-related impacts alongside geopolitical changes harm the aquatic ecosystems the fishery depends on, and thus contain a great threat to both food security and rural fishery-based livelihoods in the country. READ MORE

  3. 2. Adoption of high-technology products in emerging markets: The ACE-1 advanced biomass cookstove in rural Cambodia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Anne Baltruschat; [2019]
    Keywords : Sustainable Development; Energy access; Clean cooking; Advanced biomass stoves; Adoption;

    Abstract : This study examines the adoption of clean cooking technologies in developing countries with a focus on the ACE-1 advanced biomass stove (ABS). Marginalized communities in rural environments are often exposed to high levels of Household Air Pollution (HAP) due to the common use of traditional cookstoves. READ MORE

  4. 3. Life and strife of modern organic farmers : cases from Sweden, Cambodia, and Bali

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

    Author : Filippo Valsecchi; [2019]
    Keywords : agriculture; WWOOF; ethnography; multicase study; typology; new social movement; risk; habitus;

    Abstract : Organic farming forms an integral part of the current environmental discourse of “saving the planet” through more ecological forms of cultivation and lifestyle. Yet, beneath this common denominator, the global organic movement encompasses an impressive spectrum of experiences varying along such factors as geographical loca-tion, farm size, work organization, personal attributes, institutional framework, busi-ness style, normative ideals, and farming techniques. READ MORE

  5. 4. “Even though we are angry we cannot do anything” - An Ethnographic Case Study of the Interplay between Local Power Structures and the Identification of Poor Households Programme in Rural Cambodia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Stefanie Licht; [2015]
    Keywords : Cambodia; IDPoor; development ethnography; participatory design; power; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the interplay between the pre-existing social structures in rural Cambodia and the ‘Identification of Poor Households Programme’. The aim is to comprehend the processes and dynamics that people’s actions give rise to when they accommodate and adapt the external development intervention into the realities they live in. READ MORE

  6. 5. Zoonotic Pathogens at the Interface between Humans and Animals in Cambodia, a Rural Approach

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Clinical Sciences

    Author : Sunniva Elwing; [2013]
    Keywords : zoonotic pathogens; Cambodia; rural; participatory action reseaarch PAR ;

    Abstract : A zoonosis is a disease or infection that is naturally transmitted between vertebrate animals and humans. The majority of infectious diseases that affect humans are zoonoses. READ MORE