Essays about: "sugarcane"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 46 essays containing the word sugarcane.

1. 16. A GIS approach to estimate the bioenergy potential in Uganda

   University essay from KTH/Energisystemanalys

   Author : Ema Rodrigues Barata; [2017]
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   Abstract : Affordable and reliable electricity can provide a mean to reduce poverty, improve health care and decrease local pollution. Nevertheless, about 950 million people living in Africa and developing Asia did not have access to electricity in 2016. READ MORE

3. 17. Identifying social and political obstacles to bioethanol production from sugarcane in East Java, Indonesia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Anna Carlsson; [2017]
   Keywords : biofuels; bioethanol; sugarcane farming; sugar industry; socio-technological transition; Indonesia; East Java; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Indonesia has implemented national policies and legislations to encourage biofuel production as means to achieve energy security and self-sufficiency and to reduce reliance of fossil fuel reserves. However, there is still no clear road-map for the socio-technological transition. READ MORE

4. 18. Impacts on the local population due to delays in large scale agricultural investments : a study on the case of Agro EcoEnergy Ltd in Bagamoyo, Tanzania

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

   Author : Frida Kjellin; [2015]
   Keywords : large-scale agricultural investment; resettlement; delay; planning for the unknown; livelihoods; ontological security; trust and mistrust;

   Abstract : This thesis discusses the effect of delays in large-scale agricultural investment (LSAI) in resettlement on the local population when resettled. Empirical material was gathered in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, for the case of the investor Agro EcoEnergy Ltd. (‘EcoEnergy’) and its investment in sugar. READ MORE

5. 19. Impacts of large scale sugar investments on local livelihoods seen through the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach : A case study on a multinational sugar company’s presence in Manhiça, Mozambique

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik

   Author : Emelie Muntrakis; [2015]
   Keywords : Land acquisition; cash crops; contract farming outgrower schemes; rural development; local livelihoods;

   Abstract : Establishment of big companies in rural areas is something that is getting more and more common as the phenomenon of land acquisition is growing. This study is based on a case study in Manhiça where a big scale multinational sugar company, consisting of a sugar factory and sugarcane plantations, has been present for almost 20 years. READ MORE

6. 20. Effects of the addax bioenergy investment on female farmers´rights to land and their livelihoods in BombaliI District, Sierra Leone

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Benjamin Sesay; [2015]
   Keywords : Large-scale Land Acquisition; Rights to Land; Customary Laws; Sierra Leone; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Attempts to promote women’s rights to land in Sub-Saharan Africa have attracted attention in both academia and from an international development perspective. Female Farmers (FFs) in Bombali district in northern Sierra Leone gain access to farmland through male heritages under customary practices. READ MORE