Essays about: "knowledge-systems"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 30 essays containing the word knowledge-systems.

  1. 6. What Adaptation Strategies, as a Result of Climate Change, Do Women as Smallholder Farmers Implement? : A Study With Focus on Women in Ethiopia and Ghana.

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Emma Lindahl; [2023]
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    Abstract : This Bachelor Thesis within Peace and Development Studies will present, discuss, andanalyse What adaptation strategies do women as smallholder farmers implement as aresult of climate change? The focus will be shifted from a more general perspectivewithin developing countries to Ethiopia and Ghana. The chosen structure is to develop alarger understanding and due to this shift in perspective three other, smaller, researchquestions are also present throughout the thesis. READ MORE

  3. 7. Agribusiness possible threats to food security of a Kalunga Community

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Bruna Iervolino; [2023]
    Keywords : Agribusiness; Brazilian Cerrado; Engenho II; Family Farming; Food Security; Food Systems; Kalunga; Sustainable Development.;

    Abstract : This master's thesis explores the impact of agribusiness on food security in the Kalunga community of Engenho II, located in the Brazilian Cerrado. Agribusiness is a significant cause of water withdrawal and climate change in the region, with extensive lands converted into monocultures to export commodities. READ MORE

  4. 8. Examining governance change in wetland restoration. Case: Linnunsuo, Finland

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Laura Maria Valkonen; [2023]
    Keywords : Co-management; governance change; Linnunsuo; resilience; restoration;

    Abstract : Collaborative governance approaches can advance resilience, equity and effectiveness in the restoration of degraded ecosystems. Often co-management arrangements are not static and should be understood as dynamic process between actors. Yet, management and governance dynamics in restoration are not fully understood. READ MORE

  5. 9. Knowing To Transform : Sustainability and Openness In a (Post?)Colonial World

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Navit Reid; [2023]
    Keywords : sustainability; open knowledge; braided knowledge; knowledge systems; situated knowledges; post-qualitative; communities of practice; transformation;

    Abstract : Sustainability is seen as the solution to the wicked crisis of our unsustainability. However, the ways in which we know, understand, and enact sustainable solutions can often mean our participation reinforces the systems, institutions, and paradigms which have created our unsustainable societies in the first place. READ MORE

  6. 10. Visual Arts as Development Communication - Challenging Development Concepts : Case study Baguio City, Philippines

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Aina Eriksson; [2022]
    Keywords : Visual arts; development communication; intercultural translation; hybrid knowledge systems;

    Abstract : International Development and its aims are often contested in post-colonial discourses and by postcolonial thinkers. The fundamental concepts of development, as we see in the sector of aid and international development, steer the values, execution and evaluation of development projects across the globe, as well as national development policy. READ MORE