Sökning: "Food insecurity"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade orden Food insecurity.
1. Fighting For Food? : Investigating Food Insecurity as a Source of Urban Unrest
Sammanfattning : Under what conditions does food insecurity lead to urban unrest? This dissertation contributes to the burgeoning literature on this topic by introducing a multifaceted conceptualization of experienced food insecurity, and by developing a context-specific framework for food-related unrest. It investigates the effect of experienced food insecurity on citizens’ willingness to participate in unrest, and how a favourable structural context in the form of organizational networks moderates this relationship. LÄS MER
2. Food insecurity and coping strategies in semiarid areas : the case of Mvumi in central Tanzania
Sammanfattning : This study examines how people in dryland areas cope with food insecurity and adversities over time. It draws from the experience of the Gogo people living in Mvumi in the semiarid zone of central Tanzania, an area with a long history of food shortages. The study specifically examines the potential for dryland resources to sustain livelihoods. LÄS MER
3. Food for Naught : The politics of food in agricultural modernization for African smallholder food security
Sammanfattning : Why is there hunger in sub-Saharan Africa? What forces drive the global food system? What is the global food system? To approach these questions, this study investigates power and politics in food, in its production and in its organization. Proceeding from a critical realist approach, focus of this study is on the challenge of African smallholder food insecurity and how it is presented as part of a dominant discourse of agricultural modernization. LÄS MER
4. Of seagrass and society : Exploring contributions of tropical seagrass meadows to food security
Sammanfattning : Conserving biodiversity while simultaneously feeding a growing population is one of the grand challenges of the Anthropocene. Recently, global assessments have shone a light on the importance of the marine environment for the supply of food (often termed blue food), as well as the diverse and many livelihood opportunities associated to it. LÄS MER
5. Utilization of Wild Fruit in Mozambique – Drying of Vangueria infausta (African medlar)
Sammanfattning : Vangueria infausta (African medlar) is a wild fruit found in southern and central Mozambique. The ripe fruit has a leathery skin enclosing three to five seeds embedded in a soft pulp that tastes like apple. It plays an important role in the diet of the rural population and has the potential for commercial use. LÄS MER
