Browsing Doctoral theses (Noragric) by Title
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Reproducing vulnerability through climate change adaptation? : policy processes, local power relations and food insecurity in North-Western Nepal
(PhD Thesis;2016:14, Doctoral thesis, 2017-07-05)This dissertation examines the role of politics in driving vulnerability in rural households in western Nepal. More specifically, based on empirical data collected through extensive fieldwork in four villages in the district ... -
Small scale fishing communities’ perceptions of climate change and its impact on livelihoods, gender roles and adaptive capacity : a case of Lake Malawi
(PhD Thesis;2019:16, Doctoral thesis, 2019)Fisheries remain a major livelihood for many Malawians despite continued low fish catches negatively impacting households, which depend on this resource. The main objective of this thesis is to reduce the current lack of ... -
Sowing seeds of security : a multilevel perspective on the governance of plant genetic resources and seed systems in Ethiopia
(PhD Thesis;2022:23, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Farmers’ and breeders’ access to diverse cultivated and wild plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) is crucial for adapting crop production to climate, environmental, and socioeconomic changes and increasing ... -
The dynamics of the ancient tula wells cultural landscape : environmental and social history, ca. 1560 to the present
(PhD Thesis;2010:45, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This thesis on the dynamics of ancient tula wells cultural landscape is an attempt to integrate Environmental and Social History. The thesis advances knowledge on ancient water systems, of which past recorded knowledge is ... -
The effects of social-ecological changes on the livelihoods of fishing communities in Mafia Island, Tanzania
(PhD Thesis;2016:85, Doctoral thesis, 2016)Changes in social-ecological systems (SESs) may originate in natural environmental processes, conservation interventions, or from the introduction of new economic policies or other social, cultural or political processes. ... -
Towards feminist crops : a feminist technoscience study of gender-responsive and transformative crop breeding
(PhD Thesis;2022:32, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Crop breeding is essential for adapting our crops to continuously changing climatic and societal conditions. At the same time, the practices of plant breeding, including priority-setting and varietal design, are highly ... -
Yours today, mine tomorrow? : a study of women and men’s negotiations over resources in Baltistan, Pakistan
(Noragric PhD Dissertation;1, Doctoral thesis, 2002)How people manage their resources in order to sustain a living is a topic of central importance both to those working to improve the lives of the women and men of the mountain communities of the Himalayas, and those ...