Sökning: "global food security"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 43 avhandlingar innehållade orden global food security.

  1. 16. Frame dynamics and stakeholders in risk governance

    Författare :Beatrice Bengtsson; Research Policy Institute (RPI); []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; GMOs; framing; EU; stakeholders; expertise; governance rationalities; policy; feed; boundary framing; frame extension; intertextuality; food chain; participation; EFSA; DG SANCO; risk assessment; risk management; threshold; risks.;

    Sammanfattning : The EU governance of food safety and GM food and feed has gone through significant changes since the BSE crisis and food scares during the 1990s. This work focuses on one particular new feature; the role of stakeholders representing the food chain: biotech associations, farmer organizations, food and feed processors, consumer organizations and environmental NGOs. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Catching values of small-scale fisheries : A look at markets, trade relations and fisher behaviour

    Författare :Elizabeth Drury O'Neill; Beatrice Crona; Tim Daw; Therese Lindahl; Ragnhild Overå; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; small-scale fisheries; value chains; gender; seafood trade; global markets; patron-client; human wellbeing; benefits; markets; local social dynamics; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores small-scale fisheries trade, markets and the accompanying relationships. It does so to understand how they contribute to human wellbeing and ecosystem health through fisher's behaviour in the marine environment. LÄS MER

  4. 18. A Triply Green Revolution : Building water resilience for SDGs on food and poverty for Africa

    Författare :Maganizo Kruger Nyasulu; Ingo Fetzer; Harry Fischer; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Sustainable Development Goals SDGs; Africa; water resilience; green-blue water; agriculture; climate change; land-use change; planetary boundaries; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling; Sustainability Science;

    Sammanfattning : Sub-Saharan Africa is confronted with the urgent challenge of ensuring food security in the face of changing demographics, climate change and water vulnerability, which can lead to potential crop failure. Despite the high advocacy for technological solutions, such as irrigation, rainfed agricultural systems, which account for more than 90% of the region's food production, often remain overlooked. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Responsibility and collaboration : empirical studies of corporate social responsibility in food retail

    Författare :Julia Rotter; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a widely debated concept among academics, practitioners and non-practitioners. By definition, CSR concerns the economic, legal, political, environmental and social responsibilities of a business to its stakeholders and society at large. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Global and continental perspectives on the sustainability of future agricultural water management

    Författare :Luigi Piemontese; Fernando Jaramillo; Luigia Brandimarte; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; water; sustainable water management; agriculture; water harvesting; climate change; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

    Sammanfattning : Ensuring water and food security in the Anthropocene requires an understanding of combined climate change patterns and land and water management options from local to global scale. In many regions, irrigation from river and groundwater sources is being used at unsustainable rates and climate change will further threaten those water sources. LÄS MER