Essays about: "woman and rural development"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words woman and rural development.

  1. 1. "Power Woman" in rural Zambia. Communicating to address and engage problems about charcoal use and child marriage.

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Zandra Nilsson; [2020]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : A lot has been done in the past years to improve gender equality globally – operationssuch as UN Woman, the Sustainable Development Goals in Agenda 2030 and the workof many international non-governmental organizations. Nonetheless the world is stillfar from being gender equal. READ MORE

  3. 2. The story of a post-feminist in post-patriarchy : the consequences of customary laws and practices on rural women’s land rights and livelihoods in Tanzania

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Clement Peter Kopweh; [2016]
    Keywords : sustainability science; patriarchy; rural women; customary laws; poverty; livelihood; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In rural Tanzania, customary laws and practices have for over 50 years been the major constraints of women’s land rights and livelihood. According to customs, a man has inherent powers to own and control land, and he is considered to be the rightful heir of such resource, and a woman is not. READ MORE

  4. 3. What are trees for : an ethnographic study of local firewood practices in Uganda in the context of deforestation and climate change discourses

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

    Author : Filippa Giertta; [2016]
    Keywords : firewood; deforestation; climate change; carbon forestry; CDM; Kachung;

    Abstract : Interventions and schemes are being introduced all over the world to stop deforestation and reduce climate change. These interventions, on all levels of scale, follow a dominant global discourse based on a human-environment dichotomy and neo-Malthusian logic, and are driven by narratives of degradation by the local population and linear environmental change. READ MORE

  5. 4. Everyday Dialogues in Highland Peru: With and Beyond Development Interventions

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Natalia Fernanda Munera Parra; [2015-01-15]
    Keywords : Development interventions; Peru; women; Andean farmers; dialogical relations and agency; everyday.;

    Abstract : Development is the enterprise of triggering economic, social and political improvements through policy design and planned interventions and ameliorating negative effects of change. Feminist and anthropological studies of development encounters tend to concentrate on power relations at the same time as they leave only limited room to agency. READ MORE

  6. 5. Rural demographic change over space and time - the case of Vilhelmina municipality

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Kulturgeografi

    Author : Celia Yoshida Ahlin; [2015]
    Keywords : rural; population assessment; demographic change; diversity; settlement; micro-scale; municipality; village; time and space; evolution; and historical events; and fragmented development;

    Abstract : Since the 1960s the literature on demography of rural northern Sweden has focussed on 'decline' - noting loss of population, population ageing, yourth outmigration and other 'negative' demographic developments (Friedlander, 1969; Hjort, 2009; Stone 1971); recent studies suggest that such generalizations may overlook the diversity of experiences of rural areas (D. Carson and Koch, 2013; Cernic-Maly, Koch and Koch, 2014; Hedlund, 2014; Hoggart and Paniagua, 2001; Koch and Carson, 2012). READ MORE