Sökning: "Andhra Pradesh development"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 uppsatser innehållade orden Andhra Pradesh development.

  1. 1. Dialling up women farmers’ empowerment vis-à-vis agriculture: Exploring the effects of mobile phones in rural India

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Författare :Vanessa Berghoff; [2021]
    Nyckelord :agriculture; agricultural development; agricultural transformation; India; feminisation; farmer; women farmer; gender equality; empowerment; rural livelihoods; rural development; mobile phones; mobiles; smartphones; technology; ICT4D; ICT4Ag; mixed methods; quantitative methods; qualitative methods; case study; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Despite women being the backbone of the agricultural sector in India, the patriarchal agrarian system poses major obstacles and challenges specific to women farmers with consequences well beyond the individual. This research aims to explore how mobile phones can empower rural women vis-à-vis agriculture. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Women’s perception of participation in NREGA, empowerment as a process of change. : A comparative Minor Field Study between two villages in Andhra Pradesh, India

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Maxine Olausson; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Empowerment; India; NREGA; women; Dalit;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is a comparative analysis between two villages in India, examining personal accounts from participants in the world’s largest anti-poverty programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). The analysis is based on an eight-week field-study in Andhra Pradesh, which was financed through a Minor Field Study Scholarship by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). LÄS MER

  4. 3. Socio-Economic Sustainability of Rural Energy Access in India

    Master-uppsats, KTH/Energi och klimatstudier, ECS

    Författare :Suhasini Udayakumar; [2016]
    Nyckelord :Energy access; Indian states; rural areas; domestic sector; key performance indicators; Socio-economic Energy Sustainability Index;

    Sammanfattning : Rural energy access has been a persistent issue in India causing the country to become one of the most energy poor nations of the world. Despite the launch of several heavily funded programs for the provision of electricity and modern fuels to rural areas, majority of the country‘s village households remain neglected and deficient in energy. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Fertilty variation in Andhra Pradesh : the role of mass media exposure

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Martin Ståhlgren; [2016]
    Nyckelord :Andhra Pradesh; India; mass media; fertility; television;

    Sammanfattning : The southern Indian state Andhra Pradesh has today among the lowest fertility rate among all the major Indian states (1,8 children per woman). In recent years some studies has point to the role of mass media exposure in lowering fertility in Andhra Pradesh. Questions have been raised, however, about the nature and interpretation of this evidence. LÄS MER

  7. 5. One man’s medicine, another man’s poison : Environmental pollution from pharmaceutical manufacturing in Andhra Pradesh, potential sustainability measures and the role of Swedish actors.

    Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Tema vatten i natur och samhälle; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Författare :Markus Forster; [2014]
    Nyckelord :Institutions; Manufacture; Outsourcing; Pharmaceuticals; Pollution; India;

    Sammanfattning : Outsourcing of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes from developed countries to emerging economies such as India and China, has become increasingly frequent during the last decade. Simultaneously, impacts and risks associated with pharmaceuticals in the environment, particularly from manufacturing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), have gained recognition as major threats to sustainable development, locally (due to pollution of ground- and surface water) as well as globally (due to risks with antibiotic resistance development). LÄS MER