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  1. 1. The impact of agri-businesses on Food security in Uganda : a casestudy in Gulu

    University essay from SLU/Department of Molecular Sciences

    Author : Andrea Lundh; [2022]
    Keywords : Food systems resilience; food security; entrepreneurship; agri-businesses; Uganda; case-study; field research;

    Abstract : Today’s food system is exposed to several shocks and stresses. Resilience is a system’s ability to withstand shocks and stresses and is therefore essential for food security. Uganda experiences food insecurity. READ MORE

  3. 2. Are they an advantage - or taken advantage of?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Axel Johansson; [2021]
    Keywords : Migrant seasonal workers; Swedish agriculture; dependence; fixed effects; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : In 2019, migrant seasonal workers from outside the EU constituted approximately twenty percent of the hired workforce within the agricultural sector in Sweden. However, the total share of migrant seasonal workers is assumed to be even greater. READ MORE

  4. 3. Health care accessibility and second homes: A spatial analysis in South-East Norway

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för geografi

    Author : Olav Rønning; [2020]
    Keywords : accessibility; Second homes; health care; transport; geography;

    Abstract : While the government in Norway strives for equity in health and access, factors of urbanization, modernization, and sustainable development may discourage advancement in rural municipalities. In the rural hinterlands, often where the mountain belt resides, this is known to be caused by declining employment-rates in typical rural industries like agriculture and forestry. READ MORE

  5. 4. “Everything that needs to make the thing a whole” : aestheticization, exclusion and the political economy of Long Bay’s tourism landscape

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

    Author : Anwen Martha Davis; [2020]
    Keywords : Jamaica; Tourism; Marxist political economy; Landscape; Exclusion; Aesthetics; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Although a large volume of work has been conducted regarding tourism industries across the world, the dominant analysis in the geographies of tourism tends to draw upon post-modern discourse analysis and representational theories. This has resulted in calls to develop more materialist analyses of tourism landscapes. READ MORE

  6. 5. Mot en ny framtid : en granskning av samarbeten och förbättringsmöjligheter mellan företag

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Resource Management

    Author : Ellika Hermansson; Therése Strömvall Nyberg; [2019]
    Keywords : arbetskraft; kommunikation; motivation; skogsvårdsentreprenörer; säsongsanställning; communication; labor; motivation; seasonal employment; silviculture entrepreneurs;

    Abstract : Skogen och hur den sköts är av stort intresse för många människor och har varit det sedan timmerfronten kom till Sverige på 1800-talet. Med de utmaningar samhället står inför idag och med en vilja att omvandlas till ett fossilfritt samhälle och en biobaserad ekonomi har ett förnyat intresse för denna naturresurs väckts. READ MORE