Sökning: "Subsistence"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 90 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Subsistence.

  1. 11. Ambiguous Hopes : An Ethnographic Study of Agricultural Modernisation in a Rwandan village

    Författare :Anna Berglund; Socialantropologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Rwanda; poverty; cooperatives; subsistence agriculture; policy implementation;

    Sammanfattning : Since 2006, Rwanda has been implementing policies to modernize the agricultural sector, with the aim of moving from small-scale subsistence farming to modern, market-oriented farming. Under these policies, small-scale farmers have been compelled to abandon their traditional farming practices and adapt to monocropping of state-approved crops on consolidated land. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Mark är som barn - Genus, fattigdom, och försörjning i Södra Wollo, Etiopien : [with English summary: Our land is like our children - Gendered livelihood strategies in South Wollo, Ethiopia]

    Författare :Kristina Nässén; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; gender; everyday practice; livelihood; exchange; female-headed households; subsistence farming; rural development; Ethiopian highlands; East Africa;

    Sammanfattning : This anthropological study examines the complexity and importance of gender relations for livelihood activities and it looks at the way in which female- headed agricultural households in the Ethiopian highlands cope in an area renowned for livelihood vulnerability, drought and famine. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork which was carried out in South Wollo for a year. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Continuity or not? : Family farming and agricultural transformation in 20th century Estonia

    Författare :Hans Jörgensen; Olle Krantz; Sven Nordlund; Anu Mai Kõll; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic history; Estonia; agricultural transformation; family farms; private plots; co-operation; kolkhoz; sovkhoz; export markets; land reform; restitution; decollectivisation; subsistence farms; comparisons; Ekonomisk historia; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis explores the agrarian development in 20th Estonia and the role of family farming during three major agricultural transformations. It consists of four papers and an introductory chapter for which the common departure are the situation appearing in the Estonian farming landscape after the regained independence in 1991. LÄS MER

  5. 14. State policies and livelihoods - Rwandan Human Settlement Policy. Case Study of Ngera and Nyagahuru Villages

    Författare :Emmanuel Havugimana; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; genocide; imidugudu; livelihoods policies; Rwanda settlement; subsistence agriculture; villagization;

    Sammanfattning : Through a case study of two villages of the Southern Province of Rwanda, this thesis explores the effects on Rwanda National Settlement Policy on the livelihoods of the rural population. With today 344 inhabitants per km², Rwanda has the highest population densities of Sub-Saharan Africa. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Livet äger rum : Försörjning och platstagande i norrländska sågverkssamhällen

    Författare :Håkan Berglund-Lake; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; integrity; pattern of subsistence; place making. sawmill workers; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Etnologi; Ethnology;

    Sammanfattning : This study is concerned with the people who settled permanently near the sawmills of Västernorrland during the expansion of the sawmill industry in the latter half of the 19th century. The basis of, and a prerequisite for this resettlement and the life thus built up was the permanent employment and wages earned by the men at the sawmills. LÄS MER