Essays about: "farming division of labour"

Found 4 essays containing the words farming division of labour.

  1. 1. From traditional to modern rice farming methods: A case study on smallholder farmers in the subaks of Gunung Sari village, Bali, Indonesia

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

    Author : Ruby Casellini; [2016]
    Keywords : rice; smallholder; livelihood; gender; technology; traditional; subak; Indonesia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Historically, smallholder farmers have dominated rice production in the Global South, typically cultivating rice on less than one hectare of land. In Indonesia, rice is the staple crop and is both a political and cultural commodity. READ MORE

  3. 2. Land, Life and Women’s lack of Power - A field study based on two divorced women in Bwiam, Gambia.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Filippa Wickenberg; [2014]
    Keywords : traditional societies; women and poverty; land access; traditional farming; rural household; female-headed household; farming division of labour; female farming; Gambia; Bwiam; polygamous marriages; customary land laws; human ecology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This is a fieldwork following the daily life during two months of two divorced women in the village Bwiam, Gambia. It is a study focusing on females in a patriarchal society and how they are bound by the social structures to be married, often into polygamous households, how they farm the land by traditional methods, learnt over generations, to support their families and how they sell their produce at the market. READ MORE

  4. 3. A sweet future? : an agroecosystem analysis of strawberry farms in northern Nicaragua

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

    Author : Lina Cederlöf; Linda Norrman; [2013]
    Keywords : agroecosystem analysis; value chain analysis; strawberries; Nicaragua;

    Abstract : Nicaragua is severely challenged by poverty and the country was hit hard by the coffee crisis in the beginning of the year 2000. The situation forced farmers to find other ways to earn their livelihood and strawberries were identified as a possible cash crop. READ MORE

  5. 4. Vem är det som kör egentligen? : maskinanvändande och könsroller inom lantbruket : en intervjustudie med kvinnliga lantbrukare

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

    Author : Stella Andermo; [2010]
    Keywords : jordbruksmaskiner; könsroller; kvinnliga lantbrukare; genus; intervjustudie; teknikanvändande; maskinkunskap;

    Abstract : In this report female farmers use of technical equipment is investigated. There is little research made on this subject in Sweden, therefore this report can be seen as an explorative study. Research makes it clear that machinery, throughout history and even today, has been seen as a male area. READ MORE