This paper explores traditional hunting practices and institutions in the Mt. Elgon area of Uganda, local people's attitudes toward wildlife and their perceptions of conservation and co-operation with park staff. It also ...

The paper analyses the ways ‘Nepalese rice culture’ contributes to maintaining crop landraces and knowledge. The paper discusses the importance of local practices relating to ‘rice culture’ as a case from three contrasting ...

This study forwards a social approach to property regimes; to sets of rules created to access, use, control and manage a resource, in this case reindeer in Norway. As such, it begins with people and their often differing ...

This essay is submitted to The Ethics Program of the Norwegian Research Council in partial fulfilment of the PhD Course in “Human rights and conflict of norms”, offered in co-operation with The Norwegian Institute of Human ...

Consider food. What it is? At its most basic, it is something we collect and consume to survive. It can be very simple – a grain, a tuber, or an animal. Often, however, food is quite complex. One reason for this complexity ...

This is the first of two papers that discuss challenges of power and communication in Development Studies. It is seen as an arena for scientific discourse, where representatives of a range of different perspectives and ...

Arguably, major obstacles to poverty reduction, dignity and security for the world’s poor and oppressed sit in the Global North; in the way through which Northern governments, corporations and – ultimately – citizenries ...