Sökning: "biocultural heritage"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade orden biocultural heritage.
1. Creation as Resistance: How small-scale farmers and food artisans collaboratively respond to the global food system by recultivating a traditional rye variety in Northeast Germany
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/HumanekologiSammanfattning : This thesis examines how small-scale farmers and food artisans in Germany are impacted by and respond to the pressures of the global food system. It is based on the in-depth analysis of a case study of a recultivation effort of the traditional rye variety ‘Mecklenburger Marienroggen’ in Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Northeast Germany. LÄS MER
2. Food systems of the Andean Quechua: Countering industrial agriculture through harmonious living, food sovereignty, and traditional knowledge
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/HumanekologiSammanfattning : The Potato Park is an Andean Quechua biocultural heritage territory where six communities restored a rich biodiversity of native potatoes and other crops. Their food system has gained global recognition over the past two decades for the communities’ cultural and agricultural conservation efforts. LÄS MER
3. Protecting biocultural refugia? : Political ecology perspectives on sustainable food production in the context of two Swedish biosphere reserves
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografiSammanfattning : .... LÄS MER
4. The creation of a democratic food certification : How the Slow Food Participatory Guarantee System attempts to defend local food systems and traditions
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaSammanfattning : This thesis explores if and how an alternative certification system for agricultural products, the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS), could support small-scale farmers to preserve and promote biocultural and food heritage, linked to the landscape they inhabit, their identity as farmers and traditional knowledge. The PGS has been identified by Slow Food as an efficient low-cost and local 'bottom-up' quality assurance system, in order to develop their Presidia project and to re-embed agricultural productions within their traditional socio-ecological contexts. LÄS MER
5. Organic Farming is Coming to Our Valley : The Development of Pumi Eco-Agriculture and the Indigenisation of Modernity in Sino-Myanmar Borderlands
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaSammanfattning : How do indigenous people perceive and practice eco-agriculture, especially when it was introduced as a development project? This thesis aims to delve into this question by focusing on a policy-induced agrarian transition for Pumi community in Sino-Myanmar borderlands. Using ethnographic methods, I intend to offer an intimate account of a provincial programme to facilitate eco-agriculture in this ethnic region. LÄS MER
