Essays about: "small-scale farmer"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 54 essays containing the words small-scale farmer.
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21. In Search of the Ghost of Tom Joad – A study of the “local food” movement and its relation to the legal frameworks of the current food system
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The industrial food production system have given rise to tens of thousands of local, national and international social movements concerned with food and agriculture, reacting to the perceived social and environmental failures of the industrial food system. One of the directions inside these movements is the internationally based “local food” movement. READ MORE
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22. Genetic diversity and farmers’ selection of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) varieties on small-scale farms in Northern and Central Vietnam
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a tropical root crop grown for its starchy tuberous roots. In Vietnam, cassava’s use as a raw product for the starch and ethanol industry led to its increasing importance. READ MORE
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23. How can being engaged in an alternative marketing network support small scale, rural food entrepreneurs? : a case study of Bondens Egen Marknad in Halland
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : Rural entrepreneurship is promoted as part of current efforts made to sustain rural development, at the same time research on the topic is relatively limited and more knowledge is needed. It is the aim of this thesis to attempt to identify ways in which an alternative marketing network may support small scale, rural food entrepreneurs. READ MORE
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24. Perceptions on small-scale agricultural development : A qualitative case study made in Babati District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknikAbstract : This Bachelor’s thesis examines if and how the perceptions towards agricultural development differs between small-scale farmers, agricultural advisors and entrepreneurs with various age and level of knowledge. The case study was conducted in Babati District, Tanzania, during three weeks in the spring of 2015. READ MORE
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25. Territories of Resistance: Agroecology as Alternative(s) to Development. A Case Study of (Re)peasantisation in the City of Cape Town, South Africa
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and ManagementAbstract : Development, with its links to capitalism and Western conceptions of progress, is both impossible to achieve and restricts possibilities of other socially and ecologically just worlds. Neoliberal development has long been promoted in agriculture, leading to corporate concentration and is perpetuated under food security discourses. READ MORE