Sökning: "rural food entrepreneurship"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 uppsatser innehållade orden rural food entrepreneurship.

1. 1. Cultivating Resilient Local Food Systems: Identifying opportunities and strategies for sustainable public procurement

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Författare :Madison Sherwood-Walter; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Sustainable Development; Local Food Systems; Public Procurement; Innovation; Agricultural Policy; Rural Development;

   Sammanfattning : The industrialization of the global food system has drastically altered agricultural practices, transitioning from small-scale, subsistence farming to large-scale, transnational supply chains dominated by agribusinesses. While this shift has increased productivity, it has led to environmental degradation, economic inequity, and loss of traditional agricultural knowledge. LÄS MER

3. 2. Greener Rural areas : revealing the Business Models of Regenerative Farmers as rural entrepreneurs

   Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Författare :Amir Azmishabestari; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Business Model; Sustainable Business Model; Regenerative Agriculture;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the development of sustainable business models within rural entrepreneurs. The primary emphasis is placed on regenerative farmers who manage small-scale farms. LÄS MER

4. 3. (Re) Shaping the South African food system : a case study on alternative food system actors and the potential to transform the South African food system towards more inclusiveness

   Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Författare :Johanna Magdalena Scheiber; [2023]
   Nyckelord :alternative food system; social inclusion; youth; social capital; collective action; South Africa;

   Sammanfattning : Conventional food systems have proven to exploit natural resources and deepen socio-economic disparities, with South Africa’s youth suffering particularly from these effects due to the historic burden of structural inequalities. Alternative food systems (AFSs) have the potential to transform the conventional agri-food value chains into inclusive and more sustainable systems with the social inclusion of youth acting as a driving force. LÄS MER

5. 4. Life and strife of modern organic farmers : cases from Sweden, Cambodia, and Bali

   Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Författare :Filippo Valsecchi; [2019]
   Nyckelord :agriculture; WWOOF; ethnography; multicase study; typology; new social movement; risk; habitus;

   Sammanfattning : Organic farming forms an integral part of the current environmental discourse of “saving the planet” through more ecological forms of cultivation and lifestyle. Yet, beneath this common denominator, the global organic movement encompasses an impressive spectrum of experiences varying along such factors as geographical loca-tion, farm size, work organization, personal attributes, institutional framework, busi-ness style, normative ideals, and farming techniques. LÄS MER

7. 5. Growing on (Un)common Ground: Motivations and Locational Choice of Urban Agriculture Entrepreneurs

   Master-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Författare :Kerstin Schreiber; [2018]
   Nyckelord :urban agriculture; commercial urban farming; location-based entrepreneurship; ecopreneurship; grounded theory; motivation;

   Sammanfattning : Urban agriculture in post-industrial countries is commonly represented in form of shared community gardens or individual gardening lots. However, within the last years, an increasing number of commercial urban farming enterprises around the globe have started their operations. LÄS MER