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  1. 16. Women Farmers in Rural Uganda : A Case Study of Livelihood Threats and Building Resilience Among the Most Vulnerable

    Kandidat-uppsats, Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Författare :Sara Tillenius; Joline Forsberg; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Women; Farmers; Rural communities; Field work; Minor Field Studies; Ethnography; Uganda; East Africa; Sustainable development; Livelihoods; Grassroots resilience; Challenges; Threats;

    Sammanfattning : This case study is conducted through ten weeks of field studies in South-Eastern Uganda. Both authors have received funding from Minor Field Study scholarships. These scholarships were provided by Sida, Sweden's government agency for development cooperation. LÄS MER

  3. 17. 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

  4. 18. Gender and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Agriculture: Lessons from Farming Communities in Ejisu Municipality, Ghana

    Magister-uppsats, Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Eunice Adwoa Sarpong; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Ejisu; gender dimensions; agriculture; climate change; Gender-Responsive National Adaptation Plan NAP Processes;

    Sammanfattning : Climate change poses a threat to agriculture. Ghana’s agriculture is mainly dependent on rainfall, this makes subsistence farmers majority of whom are women more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. That said, the impacts of climate change are felt differently by men and women due to their social assigned roles and responsibilities. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Porträtteringen av entreprenörer i lantbrukspress : en befästning och frigörelse av stereotypa mönster

    Kandidat-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Författare :Josephine Andersson; Lovisa Ek; [2021]
    Nyckelord :entreprenör; genus; lantbrukare; mediebilder; stereotypa mönster;

    Sammanfattning : Entreprenörer och lantbrukare är manligt kodade koncept med manliga konnotationer. När lantbrukare studeras som företagare finns det en risk att den maskulint kodade entreprenören i samklang med den maskulint kodade lantbrukaren blir dubbelt stereotypiserad. LÄS MER

  7. 20. 'The world has changed; these days, women are the ones who are keeping their families'. Gender norms, women's economic empowerment and male capture in the rural Tanzanian poultry value-chain

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Författare :Viktor Johansson; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Sustainable Development; Gender Studies; Women s Empowerment; Gender Norms; Poultry; Tanzania;

    Sammanfattning : The study presented in this thesis aimed to explore how gender norms in four rural districts in Kilimanjaro and Lindi Region of Tanzania might influence rural women chicken farmers' economic empowerment when an urban vendor introduces an improved breed of chicken. More specifically, the following aims were explored: the normative expectations for husbands and wives in the communities researched, and how these expectations may influence intra-household negotiation processes following a market-led intervention within the Tanzanian poultry value-chain;                                                                                                                                                                   if and how intra-household resource allocation may be changed if profits were to increase within a women-led business. LÄS MER