Essays about: "agriculture and food security in africa"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 32 essays containing the words agriculture and food security in africa.

  1. 16. Geographic Disparities in Future Global Food Security : Exploring the Impacts of Population Development and Climate Change

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Naturresurser och hållbar utveckling

    Author : Hanna Helander; [2017]
    Keywords : spatial correlations; planetary boundaries; demography; hunger; agriculture; crop productivity; rumsliga korrelationer; planetära gränser; demografi; hunger; klimatförändringar; befolkningsutveckling; jordbruk;

    Abstract : Meeting the food demands of a growing population is one of the currently most critical issues for the world community. Additionally, negative impacts of climate change on agriculture are expected in some densely populated regions of developing economies. READ MORE

  3. 17. Spatial assessment of NDVI as an indicator of desertification in Ethiopia using remote sensing and GIS

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Gezahagn Negash Seboka; [2016]
    Keywords : NDVI and Rainfall; land degradation; climate change; desertification; NOAA AVHRR; land cover; GIS; Physical Geography and Ecosystem analysis; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Desertification is a serious environmental and socio-economic problem occurring at global, regional and local scale. According to Article 1(a) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), define the term “desertification” means “land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid (dry lands) areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities”. READ MORE

  4. 18. Supplemental irrigation of cereals in semi-arid areas in Ethiopia - is it worth the effort?

    University essay from KTH/Mark- och vattenteknik

    Author : Kristoffer Ristinmaa; [2015]
    Keywords : Supplemental-irrigation; Maize; Triple-Green-project; Coup-Model; Ethiopia; Sub-Saharan-Africa;

    Abstract : With a growing world population, estimated to 9.6 billion in 2050, the world food demand is estimated to increase with 45-50 %. One way to meet the demand is to increase the areal yield from the agricultural sector, where rain-fed agriculture has the highest potential. READ MORE

  5. 19. Rule of law for whom? : questioning the beneficiaries of Mozambican land and resource rights

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Pascale Magin; [2015]
    Keywords : sustainability science; power structures; economic compensation; land acquisition; property rights; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In recent years, land acquisition has escalated due to increased global demand for food and fuel driven by population growth, urbanisation, and growing energy demand. Mozambique is ranked as one of the world’s top 10 countries with available land for agriculture, forestry and livestock production. READ MORE

  6. 20. Territories of Resistance: Agroecology as Alternative(s) to Development. A Case Study of (Re)peasantisation in the City of Cape Town, South Africa

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Alistair Tamlit; [2014]
    Keywords : agroecology; post-development; discourse; territories; re peasantisation; multiple crises; Cape Town; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Development, with its links to capitalism and Western conceptions of progress, is both impossible to achieve and restricts possibilities of other socially and ecologically just worlds. Neoliberal development has long been promoted in agriculture, leading to corporate concentration and is perpetuated under food security discourses. READ MORE