Essays about: "subsistencia"

Found 5 essays containing the word subsistencia.

  1. 1. Food sovereignty: Empowering Indigenous peoples in the face of globalisation and climate change. A case-based research study from Oaxaca, Mexico

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Aliénaure Nobels; [2023]
    Keywords : Food sovereignty; local food system; sustainable farming; climate change; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Worldwide, Indigenous peoples have played a critical role in preserving ecosystems and biodiversity. Historically oppressed by colonial institutions, they are today confronted with detrimental effects of the global food system and increasingly pronounced changes in climate that jeopardise their ability to produce food. READ MORE

  3. 2. Give us this day our daily bread : The moral order of Pentecostal peasants in South Brazil

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Leonardo Marcondes Alves; [2018]
    Keywords : peasantry; Peasant Pentecostalism; peasantness; moral order; moral economy; multiple livelihood strategies; economic anthropology; anthropology of religion; Brazil; campesinato; pentecostalismo camponês; campesinidade; ordem moral; economia moral; múltiplas estratégias de subsistência; antropologia econômica; antropologia da religião; Brasil;

    Abstract : This ethnography aims to identify the role of the Pentecostal beliefs that peasants in South Brazil use in justifying their life situations. Anthropological data were collected in the Sertão region of Jaguariaíva, in the Brazilian State of Paraná. READ MORE

  4. 3. Revealing Complexities : Subsistence Sector Animal Farming, Animal Advocacy and Gender Analysis: Chances for Development in Northern Mozambique?

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Stefanie Lenz; Halla Victorsdóttir; [2014]
    Keywords : animal breeding; animal rights; gender; Mozambique; subsistence farming;

    Abstract : In Mozambique, 80 per cent of the people rely on farming for their livelihood. The majority of them are small-scale and subsistence farmers. In spite of high GDP and agricultural growth rates, the majority of Mozambicans in rural areas remain below the poverty line. READ MORE

  5. 4. Replace One´s Place: The Livelihood of Internally Displaced People in Colombia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Cornelia Helmcke; [2013]
    Keywords : internal displacement; development induced resettlement; livelihood approach; Buen Vivir; place; El Quimbo; Neiva; Colombia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Colombia es el país con el número más alto en desplazados internos en el mundo. La población rural huye generalmente por la violencia generada en el conflicto armado. Pero también los llamados “proyectos de desarrollo” de empresas multinacionales que invierten en infraestructura generalmente afectan a comunidades locales. READ MORE

  6. 5. Un inventario de productos forestales no maderables usados por los pobladores en la zona de amortiguamiento de un parque nacional en la Amazonia Peruana : una apreciación de la subsistencia y la ecologia

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Products

    Author : Helena Bager; [2005]
    Keywords : Amazonia Peruana; uso sostenible de suelos; Productos Forestales No Maderables PFNM ; Piassava; valoracion; subsistencia; ecologia;

    Abstract : Este estudio se realizó en la zona de Amortiguamiento de un nuevo Parque Nacional, llamada Cordillera Azul en el Nor-Este del Perú. En esta zona las ONGs están trabajando junto con las comunidades para encontrar métodos alternativos que cortar y quemar bosque para hacer nuevas chacras. READ MORE