Essays about: "sustainable intensification"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 36 essays containing the words sustainable intensification.

  1. 21. Farming for food security : a critical study on the transition to post-fossil agriculture in Sweden

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

    Author : Ebba Ulfbecker; [2018]
    Keywords : agricultural politics; food security; resilience; transition; climate mitigation; agroecology; sustainable intensification; the Rural Development program; contingency; rural development; discourse analysis; policy analysis;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses the preconditions to achieve a transition to fossil free agriculture in Sweden, to increase farm-level resilience and food security. Swedish agriculture is today highly dependent on imported fossil-based inputs, such as diesel, agrochemicals and protein feed. READ MORE

  3. 22. Exploring Agroecology : agroecology, urban agriculture and farming in secluded areas

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biosystems and Technology (from 130101)

    Author : Sixten Lundqvist; [2018]
    Keywords : agroecology; urban farming; localization; nutrients; farming systems; farming strategies; permaculture;

    Abstract : Agroecology, due to its framework and prerequisites, is a limited set of principles with lacking flexibility. Its objective is to create fairer food networks, that are sustainable, on a global scale yet it is seldom seen in practice. Its unconventional means are not convincing enough to engage larger amounts of people who partake in agriculture. READ MORE

  4. 23. Producing and consuming artisan food: a way of preserving our biological heritage? : A phenomenographic study on how biological heritage is understood, described and communicated in the context of artisan food production and consumption

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

    Author : Chloé Girard; [2017]
    Keywords : biological heritage; local food; artisan food; environmental quality goals; environmental communication; fäbod; Sweden;

    Abstract : In Sweden, the environmental quality goal 13 for A Varied Agricultural Landscape, that combines environment, food production and rurality and aims at keeping the agricultural landscape open, was considered as not achieved in 2016. One of the reasons for this non-achievementis the agricultural intensification and specialisation and in turn the decrease in number of pastures during the 20th century, threating thus habitats, diversity and values resulting from a continuous, traditional use of the land commonly called ‘biological heritage’. READ MORE

  5. 24. Problematizing productivity : exploring patterns of thought in the swedish national food strategy

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

    Author : Viktor Eriksson; [2017]
    Keywords : WPR; agriculture; discourse; Sweden; strategy; policy; problematization; agricultural; sustainability; productivity; intensification;

    Abstract : This thesis explores what agro-political discourses define the Swedish National Food Policy from 2017. By analysing how the problems of environmental sustainability and productivity are addressed, the study aims to excavate unearthed ways of thinking. READ MORE

  6. 25. Assessment of Functional AgroBiodiversity in Swedish apple orchards : Field trials and participatory action research

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biosystems and Technology (from 130101)

    Author : Michal Stranak; [2017]
    Keywords : biodiversity; functional agrobiodiversity; pest management; monitoring methods; apple; sustainability; agroecology; knowledge;

    Abstract : The rate of biodiversity loss has in the last decades increased by rates unseen in the history of the humankind. Agricultural intensification has been one of the main contributors to biodiversity loss. In modern agricultural production, the concentration of land devoted to single crops causes several challenges. READ MORE