Search for dissertations about: "smallholder food security"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words smallholder food security.

2. 1. Food for Naught : The politics of food in agricultural modernization for African smallholder food security

   Author : Cheryl Sjöström; LUCSUS; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; global food system; smallholder food security; sub-Saharan Africa; agricultural modernization; critical discourse analysis; power; politics of food; Millennium Villages Project; Malawi;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

4. 2. Integrated Agriculture and Aquaculture Systems (IAA) for Enhanced Food Production and Income Diversification in Tanzania

   Author : Deogratias Mulokozi; Håkan Berg; Ian Bryceson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; Smallholder farmers; Oreochromis niloticus; Amaranthus hybridus; food production; household income diversification; water use efficiency; farm net income; Physical Geography; naturgeografi;

   Abstract : Aquaculture production in Tanzania has increased in recent years, responding to an increased demand for fish, partly because of an increasing population and declining catches of wild fish. However, the current aquaculture production is still low, dominated by small scale farming systems, that are struggling with a number of challenges such as lack of improved fish breeds, feeds, technical skills and low adoption rates. READ MORE

5. 3. Post-Harvest Losses, Intimate Partner Violence and Food Security in Tanzania

   Author : Martin Julius Chegere; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; post-harvest losses; intimate partner violence; hermetic bags; training; post-harvest handling pratices; randomised controlled trial; cost-benefit analysis;

   Abstract : High levels of food losses occurring after harvesting offset the effort to increase food production. This situation increases the risk of food insecurity and low incomes among smallholder farmers. READ MORE

6. 4. Food security in a changing climate : The role of cropland intensification and land acquisitions across Africa

   Author : Altaaf Mechiche-Alami; Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Agriculture; land grabbing; sustainability science; Network Analysis; Earth observation; Crop model;

   Abstract : Food security is one of the world’s greatest challenges. The current food system shows an entanglement across the globe which means that local farmers reliant on subsistence agriculture no longer operate in isolation of larger-scale processes within the global economy or the changing biophysical system of the planet. READ MORE

7. 5. Between Nature and Modernity : Agroecology as an alternative development pathway: the case of Uganda

   Author : Ellinor Isgren; LUCSUS; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; agricultural sustainability; smallholder farming; neoliberal modernization; sub-Saharan Africa; Uganda; civil society; rural social movements; emancipatory social science; political ecology; sustainability science; hållbarhetsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Agricultural modernization has massively increased global food supply, but at a high environmental cost. Today many are calling for an agricultural ‘paradigm shift’, including several mainstream institutions. READ MORE