Sökning: "small farms"

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  1. 1. I industrisamhällets utkant : småbrukets omvandling i Lappmarken 1870-1970

    Författare :Dan Bäcklund; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; agriculture; small farms; farming during industrialization; farming as insurance; supplementary incomes; productivity; closing down;

    Sammanfattning : This investigation deals with the function and transformation of small-scale farming during the period when the industrial society emerged. The development in Northern Lapland during the period 1870-1970 has been studied and compared with the development in other parts of Sweden. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Hus och gård i förändring : Uppländska herrgårdar, boställen och bondgårdar under 1700- och 1800-talens agrara revolution

    Författare :Göran Ulväng; Mats Morell; Dan Bäcklund; Christer Persson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic history; buildings; countryside; 18th-19th centuries; agrarian revolution; agriculture; household; work organisation; economics; manors; vicarages; farms; Ekonomisk historia; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis is about what the buildings at manor estates, vicarages and farms looked like and how they changed during the agrarian revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. Through new clearings, mechanisation, land partition, and increased work distribution and specialisation, production increased vigorously during the period, which generally caused an increase in prosperity and lay the foundation for the subsequent industrial revolution. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Worms, Farms and Schools : Three Essays on Investment Choices in Uganda

    Författare :Benedetta Lerva; Konrad Burchardi; Jakob Svensson; Jonathan de Quidt; Karen Macours; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; field experiments; randomized evaluations; agriculture; education; externalities; technology adoption; financial aid; cash transfers; school inputs; moral hazard; sharecropping; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Quantifying Externalities in Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan FarmersI investigate how positive externalities contribute to underadoption of agricultural technology among sub-Saharan African farmers. I focus on the adoption of pest-control technologies. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Phosphorus Emissions from Fish Farms : Observed and Predicted Effects

    Författare :Torbjörn Johansson; Kurt Pettersson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Earth sciences; Fish farm; phosphorus; eutrophication; model; Geovetenskap; Earth sciences; Geovetenskap; Sedimentology; sedimentologi;

    Sammanfattning : During the last decades, fish farming has been a rapidly increasing industry in many European and North American countries. Sweden has a large potential for aquaculture, but there is also a strong concern about the effects on the environment that an increased aquaculture production may cause. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Gård, gräns, giftermål : Familjestrategiers betydelse för markens och landskapets utformning i Norra Åsarps socken, Västergötland ca 1640-1880

    Författare :Madeleine A Bonow; Ulf Sporrong; Ulf Jansson; Marie Stenseke; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Farms; marriage strategies; field-systems; boundaries; territoriality; kinship; social class; Bourdieu; Sweden; 17th-; 18th - and 19th century; Västergötland; Norra Åsarp; Earth sciences; Geovetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with property rights and the implications of these for people, landscape and settlement in Norra Åsarp Parish in the province of Västergötland.The overarching aim of the thesis is to investigate systems of social rules and how these influence the structure of settlement and land use/ownership. LÄS MER