Sökning: "rural poverty"

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  1. 11. Determinants and Functional Impact of Nutritional Status Among Older Persons in Rural Bangladesh

    Författare :Tamanna Ferdous; Tommy Cederholm; Åke Wahlin; Zarina Nahar Kabir; Birgitta Sidenvall; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Nutritional status; Mini Nutritional Assessment; older persons; community living; poverty; physical function; cognitive function; low-income country; Bangladesh.; MEDICINE; MEDICIN; Nutrition; näringslära;

    Sammanfattning : Background: Malnutrition is a major problem in Bangladesh. One third of the population in Bangladesh is malnourished, but figures for older persons specifically are scant. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Alternative agriculture and rural development: A case study of sugar beet cultivation in Kenya

    Författare :Nicodemus Mandere; Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Challenges; Prospects; Household income; Poverty; Sugar beet; Kenya; Alternative agriculture;

    Sammanfattning : Land use change has been observed to cause profound impacts on sustainability, particularly when the change is not well planned and co-coordinated. In Kenya the government is promoting diversification of crops to embrace high value crops and drought resistant crop varieties in efforts to reduce poverty in rural areas. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Understanding poverty traps in biocultural landscapes

    Författare :L. Jamila Haider; Maja Schlüter; Flora Hajdu; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; poverty trap; biocultural; development; review; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

    Sammanfattning : Over one and a half billion people live in poverty, with some 795 million suffering from chronic malnourishment. For many of these people this perilous situation has persisted for decades or more, in what is popularly characterized as a poverty ‘trap’. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Becoming Biofuels. The messy assembling of resources, sustainability, poverty, land use, and nation-states

    Författare :Marie Widengård; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; biofuels; jatropha; assemblages; governmentality; political ecology; political economy; ethnography; governance; materiality; authority; territory; sovereignty; resources; poverty; sustainability; land use change; states; standards; certification; Africa; Zambia; Mozambique; Tanzania; Kenya; Brazil; EU;

    Sammanfattning : Biofuels have come to represent the will to mitigate climate change by replacing fossil fuels with so-called climate-friendly and renewable plant sources, and to improve rural and poor conditions in the South through biofuel crop production, farm job creation, and smallholder cash cropping. The expansion of biofuels in countries in the South largely pivoted upon ‘the will to develop’, specifically through the oil shrub Jatropha curcas L. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Rural Income Diversification, Employment, and Differentiation in Kenya and Implications for Rural Change

    Författare :Maria Fibaek; Ekonomisk utveckling i det globala Syd; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Rural Development; Income Diversification; Differentiation; Agrarian Political Economy; Kenya;

    Sammanfattning : To contribute to contemporary rural development debates, the present thesis conducts a contextual analysis of rural development using Kenya as a case study from the colonial era to today. To perform the analysis, two critical trends in rural Africa are focused on: socioeconomic differentiation and rural income diversification, with a particular focus on large-scale farm employment. LÄS MER