Blar i Faculty of Biosciences (BioVit) på emneord "VDP::Agriculture and fishery disciplines: 900::Agriculture disciplines: 910::Other agricultural disciplines: 919"
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A case study on the barriers and opportunities for the upscaling of short food supply chains : the perspective of stakeholders in Wallonia, Belgium.
(Master thesis, 2014-11-03)Despite an increasing interest in short food supply chains in the last years, these have failed to go beyond niche market and are mostly reaching wealthy consumers and small scale farming holdings. In our industrialized ... -
Analyse av testløype på fjordhest
(Master thesis, 2012-01-16)De nasjonale hesterasene fjordhest, dølahest og nordlandshest/lyngshest er i stor konkurranse med andre importerte og spesialiserte hesteraser når det gjelder sport og avl. For å styrke konkurransenivået, i markedet, til ... -
Barriers to Crop Diversification Practices in the European Union: A Narrative Synthesis
(Master thesis, 2021)Crop diversification covers different farm-level practices such as extending crop rotations, intercropping, multicropping, and strip cropping. Irrespective of the well-documented farmlevel and societal benefits derived ... -
Beyond blanket solutions : examining the potential of community seed banks to improve maize seed security in Northern Malawi
(Master thesis, 2019)In Malawi, maize seeds are a sociopolitical currency and the Malawian government’s primary tool for addressing severe and chronic food and seed insecurity. The large-scale government and donor-sponsored seed subsidy program ... -
Colorado cannabis : soft systems analysis of an emerging industry
(Master thesis, 2016-08-11)The objective of this study is to describe ways in which rural producers participate in the cannabis industry in Colorado. With recently changed laws permitting hemp and drug-type cannabis cultivation, cannabis could be ... -
Doing Agroecology : democratic practice and social learning in civic food organizations
(Master thesis, 2016-11-22)Localization of food networks has been heralded as a way of creating a more just and sustainable food system. This study explores the potential of civic food networks to serve as sites for “really existing” food democracy, ... -
Effekt av aktivitet og ressursfordeling på individualavstanden hos geiter med ulik sosial strategi
(Master thesis, 2010-12-06)Individualavstanden mellom dyr påvirkes av faktorer knyttet til individet, forskjellige aktiviteter og miljøet. Forskjellige individer bruker ulike typer atferdstrategier for å håndtere det sosiale miljøet i ei gruppe. ... -
Effekt av separat avdeling ved AMS for mjølkekyr (Bos taurus) på ytelse, mastitt og fruktbarhet.
(Master thesis, 2015-11-04)Formålet med dette studiet var å undersøka utforming og bruk av separate avdelingar i AMS-besetningar i Noreg. Helse og produksjonparametrar vart nytta for å bestemme verknaden av separat avdeling ved AMS. Bønder vart ... -
An exploratory study of the behavior of horses performing weed control in vineyards : Caract-Equivigne project
(Master thesis, 2022)In this master's thesis, we have elaborated an ethogram of draught horses plowing down ridges in the vineyard by observing videos of these horsing working, and by providing the most precise definitions and illustrations ... -
Genetic analysis of sheepdog trials in Norway - a proposal of new trait definitions and improved recording in Border Collie
(Master thesis, 2015-01-27)Abstract The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of the data material provided from sheepdog trials in Norway, estimate heritabilities and repeatabilities for the traits included in the trial, as well as ... -
Hvordan mjølkesystem påvirker mastittfrekvensen i norske besetninger
(Master thesis, 2013-08-26)Målet med denne masteroppgaven er å undersøke hvordan frekvensen av mastitt hos norske mjølkekyr påvirkes av ulike mjølkesystemer. Med økende krav til høy ytelse og effektivitet blir AMS stadig mer populært og stadig ... -
Importance of social behaviour in eliciting A-not-B error in domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) with “Unidentified Moving Object” (UMO) as partner
(Master thesis, 2015-02-27)Domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) are highly sociable animals that are observed to be experts at interacting, understanding and cooperating with humans (Homo sapiens). Social behaviour is difficult to study due to the ... -
Kartlegging av renhet på ulike gulvtyper i trafikkarealet i løsdriftsfjøs for melkekyr i Norge
(Master thesis, 2014-02-11)Flere bygger løsdriftsfjøs og øker antall melkekyr i besetningen, noe som vil ha en påvirkning på hygiene i fjøset. Hygiene i fjøset spiller en viktig rolle i forhold til klauvhelse, jurhelse og dyrehelse. Renhet på ulike ... -
Looking beyond individual behaviour: a social practice approach to understanding consumer drop out in REKO
(Master thesis, 2020)The current food system employs an industrialised model of agriculture that has been connected to climate change, loss of biodiversity, environmental degradation, and the erosion of rural livelihoods. It is characterized ... -
Managing manure for sustainable organic Basmati rice production : farm-level trade-offs in Uttarakhand, India
(Master thesis, 2016-09-06)Employing an agroecological framework, the research addressed the interconnected ecological, social and economic aspects of manure management on small-scale organic farms, investigating manure management as central to ... -
Participatory video in agroecology education : a multiple-case study with the Green Learning Network
(Master thesis, 2016-11-22)A transformation of our food system necessitates a revision of how we think and communicate about agriculture. In the past few decades, increasing attention has been paid to the unique requirements of teaching sustainable ... -
Potentials for food system development in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala : participatory action research at the farm, community, and regional levels
(Master thesis, 2014-11-03)This study explores potentials and constraints for farm and food system development in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala through participative research with smallholder farmers from three Mayan ethnic groups. Semi-structured interviews ... -
Quality of vegetable grower social networks and potential role for adoption of agroecological innovations : the case of Ubaque in the Colombia Highlands
(Master thesis, 2015-12-04)Studies on adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations have evolved over time according to the technological transfer paradigms; the linear top-down approaches used during the Green Revolution has led to new ... -
Renhetsbedømmelse i binger til gris
(Master thesis, 2011-08-25)I binger til gris kan det være en utfordring å holde det faste gulvet ved en akseptabel renhetlig hygiene. I svineproduksjon er arbeidsinnsatsen brukt til rengjøring den som tar utelukkende mest tid. Ved å prøve å forstå ... -
Social interactions, time activity budgets and movement patterns in dairy goats (Capra circus) housed in two different group sizes
(Master thesis, 2015-07-10)Goats are, like most farm animals, group living animals. In todays animal husbandry of goats there is considerable variation in group size. Larger group sizes are generally associated with less aggressive interactions and ...