Doctoral theses (Noragric): Recent submissions
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Inclusive value chain development : applying systems thinking and participatory modeling to dairy value chain analyses in Nicaragua and Tanzania
(PhD Thesis;2017:45, Doctoral thesis, 2017)This thesis explores how policy-makers and other stakeholders can support smallholder participation in higher-value marketing chains despite the many challenges faced by smallholders in developing countries. The overall ... -
Agricultural investments for development in Tanzania: reconciling actors, strategies and logics?
(PhD Thesis;2017:63, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Agricultural investments carry opportunities and risks for smallholders, rural communities, and the environment. This thesis investigates the potentials and limitations of smallholder-inclusive agricultural investments in ... -
Effects of civil war on maternal and child health care in sub-Saharan Africa
(PhD Thesis;2014:48, Doctoral thesis, 2014)The aim of this thesis is to investigate an issue of great concern in developing countries: the impacts of civil conflict on access to and use of health maternal and child health care services, in sub-Saharan Africa. In ... -
Protected areas and people in Uganda : costs, benefits, livelihoods and narratives around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
(PhD Thesis;2012:33, Doctoral thesis, 2012)This thesis contributes to a current debate on how to balance conservation and development goals. Globally, land set aside for the protection of biodiversity has increased exponentially over the last 30 years. Despite ... -
How not to cut down a tree : a comparative study of forest policies, livelihoods and land use in Vietnam
(PhD Thesis;2017:11, Doctoral thesis, 2017)This thesis focuses on the role of forests and forest management in providing global environmental and climate services. The study analyzes multiple dimensions of forest-sector policy development, with a special focus on ... -
Pesticide use in Nepal : health effects and economic costs for farmers in the central mid-hills
(PhD Thesis;2013:20, Doctoral thesis, 2013)The thesis evaluates the negative effect that intensive agriculture brings, particularly in terms of the effect of pesticide use on human and on the environment, and the associated economic cost. Vegetable production is ... -
Contesting conservation and development : quilombolas struggling for rights and resources in the Ribeira Valley, Brazil
(PhD Thesis;2016:17, Doctoral thesis, 2017-07-06)This thesis sets out to explore how quilombolas, Afro-Brazilians descending from slaves, have responded to top-down conservation and development projects, and investigates different impediments to the realisation of ... -
Changing seascapes : local adaptation processes in Belizean fishing communities
(PhD Thesis;2015:64, Doctoral thesis, 2015)This thesis analyses how contextual social, economic and political conditions interact and influence adaptation to coastal change, through an in-depth focus on two Belizean fishing communities. Belize is considered to be ... -
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. ... -
Development in a changing climate : local impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Attappady, Kerala
(PhD Thesis;2015:55, Doctoral thesis, 2017-07-05)The thesis analyses the role of one of India’s central social security schemes, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), in the context of climate change adaptation. A conceptual exploration ... -
Exploring gendered dimensions of ownership, access and use of land-based resources in post crisis Swat, Pakistan
(PhD Thesis;2016:27, Doctoral thesis, 2017-07-05)Gendered dimensions of ownership, access and use of land-based resources in rural economies in Pakistan are still negotiable and under-researched. Not only is land ownership highly gendered, but also it is underpinned by ... -
Linking ecological and social elements to sustain coral reef fisheries : a case of groupers [Epinephelidae] in Mafia Island, Tanzania
(PhD Thesis;2016:03, Doctoral thesis, 2017-07-05)The study of the dynamic nature of interactions within and between social and ecological aspects of reef fisheries is increasing, in order to promote understanding and to mitigate complex changes from global pressure and ... -
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 ... -
Agronomic technologies in maize and their adoption and diffusion in semi-arid central Rift Valley Ethiopia : agronomic and economic analyses
(PhD Thesis;2016:12, Doctoral thesis, 2017-07-05)This thesis evaluates the agronomic and economic responses to agricultural technologies in maize, identifies the agronomic technologies reaching farmers, and assesses their adoption and diffusion. The thesis consists of ... -
Dissonance in development : foreign aid and state formation in Malawi
(PhD Thesis;2011:49, Doctoral thesis, 2011)The thesis focuses on certain characteristics of the state and of state formation in Malawi, with particular emphasis on the effects of development aid. The methodological and theoretical approach draws primarily on social ... -
Bringing the workers' rights back in? : the discourse and politics of fortifying core labour standards through a labour-trade linkage
(PhD Thesis;2011:16, Doctoral thesis, 2011)Throughout the 1990s the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) conducted a campaign to convince states to institute a linkage between the international labour and trade regimes (also dubbed a social ... -
Pastoral transformation : Shifta-war, livelihood, and gender perspectives among the Waso Borana in Northern Kenya
(PhD Thesis;2010:44, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This thesis is concerned with the analysis of external and internal drivers of pastoral transformation (i.e. conflicts), their long-term impact on the pastoral livelihood, and community response mechanisms. The thesis ... -
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 ... -
Agricultural intensification in a mid-hill watershed of Nepal : socio-economic and environmental implications
(PhD Thesis;2010:39, Doctoral thesis, 2010)Agricultural intensification is unavoidable due to the food requirements of a growing population, market availability and access to agro-products, and limited productive agricultural areas in Nepal. A shift from cultivating ... -
Politics and property rights regimes in land in Arsi Negele and Hetossa, South-Central Oromia, Ethiopia: Late 1880s-2006
(PhD Thesis;2010:38, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This study explores the role of politics in shaping changes and continuities in property rights regimes in rural land in Arsi Negele and Hetossa Districts (Woreda) in South-Central Oromia, Ethiopia, in historical perspective. ...