Essays about: "agrarian activities"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words agrarian activities.
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1. Determinants of Female Farmers Access to Agrarian Extension Services: A case study from Ethiopia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This paper aims at investigating the determinants of female farmers access to Agrarian Extension Services in Ethiopia, where extension services represent a critical tool for the development of the agrarian sector. Despite the country’s efforts to develop a gender-responsive extension system, several bottlenecks are negatively driving down women’s access to these services. READ MORE
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2. Farming with Draft Animals: Using Retro Innovations for Sustainable Agrarian Development. : A case study of organic small-scale farming in Northern Italy.
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience CentreAbstract : To farm more sustainably, some farmers are rediscovering and innovating knowledge, skills, and technologies that were used before the modernisation of agriculture in the 1950s. One such 'retro-innovation' is the use of draft animals as a source of labour on farms. READ MORE
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3. Böndernas nya värld : en uppföljande studie av tre gårdar i jordbrukets omvandling 1981–2019
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Åren 1981–2 genomfördes en samtidsdokumentation av jordbruket på tre gårdar i Uppland. I den här uppsatsen återkommer jag till dessa tre med en vilja att förstå hur jordbrukets strukturrationalisering i den nyliberala eran påverkar livet på den individuella gården. READ MORE
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4. Farmers’ perspectives on male out-migration and the future of agrarian livelihoods in Rwanda : case studies from Rudashya and Kiryango villages
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Rural out-migration is prevalent phenomenon throughout the Global South. In this study, I explore the effects of male out-migration on the agrarian livelihoods of the farmers‟ households in Rwanda. READ MORE
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5. Attracting and banning Ankari: Musical and Climate Change in the Kallawaya Region in Northern Bolivia
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : In the Kallawaya region in the Northern Bolivian Andes musical practices are closely related to the social, natural and spiritual environment: This is evident during the process of constructing and tuning instruments, but also during activities in the agrarian cycle, collective ritual and healing practices, as means of communication with the ancestors and, based on a Kallawaya perspective, during the critical involvement in influencing local weather events. In order to understand the complexity of climate change in the Kallawaya region beyond Western ontological principles the latter is of great importance. READ MORE