Essays about: "farmers’ vulnerability"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 35 essays containing the words farmers’ vulnerability.

  1. 21. Whole farm technical efficiency : the case of Ethiopian smallholders: time-variant stochastic frontier model

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Astewale Bimr Melaku; [2018]
    Keywords : smallholder farmers; technical efficiency; time-variant; Ethiopia;

    Abstract : This study uses a time-varying random-effects stochastic frontier model to estimate level of whole farm technical efficiency using 3,465 observations of sample smallholder farmers located in Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, and Southern Nation and Nationalities (SNNP) regions of Ethiopia. A baseline econometric analysis has been done by employing Corrected Ordinary Least Square (COLS) and cross-section data models prior to the panel data model analysis as a robustness check. READ MORE

  3. 22. Food secure : Farmers on their modes of production

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

    Author : Josefin Heed; [2018]
    Keywords : fossil fuels; agriculture; food; mode of production; farmers; vulnerability; capitalism;

    Abstract : The thesis explores contradictions that farmers see between current mode of production, and how they imagine that modes of production would need to change if there were no fossil fuels. Based on qualitative interviews with farmers, the aim of the study is to contribute to a discussion on strategies to increase the farms’ capabilities to produce food without fossil fuels. READ MORE

  4. 23. Climate Change in the Peruvian Andes : A Case Study of Adverse Socioeconomic Impacts on Small-Scale Farmers in the Quillcay River Basin

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Anna Heikkinen; [2016]
    Keywords : Peru; climate change; hydrology; small-scale farming; vulnerability; resilience;

    Abstract : Climate anomalies have been observed in the tropical Andes in Peru resulting in hydrological changes that consequently threaten livelihoods and daily survival of the lowland residents. In this study, adverse socioeconomic impacts on small-scale farmers in the Quillcay River basin due to variation in precipitation patterns and enhanced glacier retreat are examined through a case study approach. READ MORE

  5. 24. Vad får man göra? : en studie om hur lantbrukares möjligheter att diversifiera begränsas av sociala och kulturella faktorer

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of People and Society

    Author : Freddie Lindekrantz; Fabian Rappe; [2016]
    Keywords : historia; generation; lönsamhet; social kontroll; social bond theory;

    Abstract : Lantbruket har lönsamhetsproblem. Den låga lönsamheten beror på att konkurrensen har ökat på den globala råvarumarknaden. Diversifiering har lyfts fram som ett sätt att bli mindre sårbar mot risker som till exempel prisvariationer. Trots detta har endast 37 % av Sveriges lantbrukare en kombinationsverksamhet. READ MORE

  6. 25. Policy, agency and scale in local adaptation to socio-environmental change in the Panchkhal Valley, Nepal

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Jakob Grandin; [2016]
    Keywords : Climate change; adaptation; agriculture; polycentric systems; policy; Nepal;

    Abstract : This case study explores climate change coping and adaptation strategies in an agriculture- dependent community in the Panchkhal Valley in Nepal that suffered from five years of drought between 2004 and 2009. Based on fieldwork and interviews in Panchkhal 2011–2012, it explores how drought, combined with an ongoing process of agricultural commercialization and intensification, lead to a situation of ‘double exposure’ for Panchkhal farmers. READ MORE