Essays about: "farming school"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 35 essays containing the words farming school.

  1. 11. Being close to a cow : experiences of learning and farming among students at an agricultural program

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

    Author : Ida Säfström; [2019]
    Keywords : learning; bodily experience; closeness; farming; students; non-humans;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore learning in farming environments from a perspective of bodily experience. The aim is to create understanding about the role of bodily experience in learning the craft of farming. READ MORE

  3. 12. Investing in Future Generations: Global Cocoa Price shocks and their impact upon School Attendance and Child Employment Rates in Ghana, 1987-1991

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Raoul Herbert; [2019]
    Keywords : Ghana; Cocoa; Economic History; Commodity Shocks; Child Outcomes; Child Labour; Schooling; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper looks into the responses of cocoa farming households to a negative shock in the global cocoa price with regards to how they invest into the future of their children. The specific child outcomes of focus are child employment rates, school attendance, and household expenditure on schooling and related activities. READ MORE

  4. 13. An Asymmetric Virtual Reality Game on Water Scarcity

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ergonomi och aerosolteknologi

    Author : Sara Egli; Elin Hanstorp; [2019]
    Keywords : user centered design; virtual reality; educational games; multiplayer; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Access to water is a necessity for farmers for them to be able to produce food. This poses a problem in Jordan, one of the world’s driest countries, but also in Sweden, where after a drought in the summer of 2018 the state of the water levels was more critical than ever. READ MORE

  5. 14. Food supply in rural Ethiopia : food security in former agroforestry homegardens in Wondo Genet

    University essay from SLU/School for Forest Management

    Author : Helena Jonsson; [2018]
    Keywords : agriculture; forestry; Africa;

    Abstract : The purpose of this report is to get an insight in how food security for individual farming households will change depending on their choice of production. Furthermore, to study how the food supply in the local market has changed due to the transition of farming practices in surrounding farms. READ MORE

  6. 15. Farmers not Farming? An empirical study of the elimination of the mandatory set-aside policy in the EU.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Amanda Karlsson; [2017-07-28]
    Keywords : Agriculture; Common Agricultural Policy; set-aside policy; the Health Check of the CAP; FADN data; difference-in-difference;

    Abstract : This thesis evaluates European farmers which were subject to mandatory set-aside entitlements for many years. Mandatory set-aside of land, required farmers to leave arable land out of production to be eligible for subsidies. READ MORE