Progress in human development is threatened by the complexities of global environmental change - a defining challenge of our time. Appropriate societal responses are needed to address disturbances and increasing vulnerability of social-ecological systems. This changing context c…
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Over the past 40 years issues of environment and hunger have received international focus due to wide scale reports of famine and the resulting death of thousands of Ethiopians. Since the mid 1980's, sustainable agricultural development has been tied to the reversal of environme…
In the past decade, food (in)security has been recognized as an important public health and human rights issue in Inuit Nunangat, the Inuit homeland in Arctic Canada. Nunavut in particular has been characterized as the epicenter of a Northern food crisis. While a growing number …
Extensive efforts have been made to find operational metrics of food security and its geographical variation in the West African Sahel since the catastrophic famines of the 1970s and 1980s. Food insecurity has been estimated using many different types of data, including satellit…
This dissertation addresses two related but distinct issues of importance. The first part examines the extent to which export-led growth is applicable to poor countries that depend on agricultural commodities for their foreign exchange earnings. The second part explores the impl…
Ethiopia is an old agrarian society endowed with a skilled and hard-working peasantry that carries a rich fund of agricultural knowledge. Yet Ethiopian peasants have been the main victims of the cyclical droughts and famines. Recurring famines helped to bring about the 1974 revo…
Communities in the Sahel region are confronted with problems such as depletion of soil fertility, food insecurity, and climate change, which exacerbate poverty and malnutrition for the inhabitants. The farmlands in Toukar, Senegal, are rapidly denuded of native trees, mainly Aca…
Food security is often misunderstood: overlooked in security studies and essentialized as a biological and nutritional issue, or as simply supply not matching demand. Yet, food security rests on underlying social and political questions of power, entitlement, distribution, and a…
This is an exploratory study of a contemporary food controversy that also pilots an orientation to rhetorical criticism, which I call rhetorical geography. The contemporary agriculture system, which has reduced global hunger over the last half century, is also laden with problem…
Le jardin de case traditionnel, système agroforestier d'utilisation du sol, a été utilisé pendant des siècles en milieu tropical comme source de produits alimentaires tant dans les zones urbaines que dans les campagnes. En milieu rural, il fait partie du paysage. Il constitue un…
During the last few decades, the global agricultural production has risen and technology enhancement is still contributing to yield growth. However, population growth, water and energy crisis, and extreme weather, climate change, etc. threaten the global food security. The focus…
This study examines the food security and marketed surplus effects of intensified dairying in the peri-urban area of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where a market-oriented dairy production (MODP) system has been introduced for smallholders. Implications for policy formulation are drawn …