Christine Jost, Florence Birungi Kyazze, Jesse B. Naab, Sharmind Neelormi et al.
In Uganda, Ghana and Bangladesh, participatory tools were used for a socio-economic and gender analysis of three topics: climate-smart agriculture (CSA), climate analogue approaches, and climate and weather forecasting. Policy and programme-relevant results were obtained. Smallholders are changing a...
Sanzidur Rahman, Mizanur Rahman
Bina Agarwal
AbstractIn recent years, the concept of 'food sovereignty' has gained increasing ground among grassroots groups, taking the form of a global movement. But there is no uniform conceptualization of what food sovereignty constitutes. Indeed, the definition has been expanding over time. It has moved fro...
B. L. Turner, Stephen B. Brush
Part 1. Introduction. Turner, Brush, Purpose, Classification, and Organization. Brush, Turner, Nature of Farming Systems and Views of Their Change. Part 2. Paleotechnic and Consumption-Oriented Systems. Beckerman, Amazonia Swidden. Ewell, Merrill-Sands, The Milpa and Its Alternatives in the Maya Pea...
Patricia Howard
* Foreword * 1. Women and the Plant World: An Exploration - Patricia L. Howard * Part 1: Culture, Kitchen and Conservation * 2. Women in the Garden and Kitchen: The Role of Cuisine in the Conservation of Traditional House Lot Crops among Yucatec Mayan Immigrants - Laurie S. Z. Greenberg * 3. Wild Fo...
Shapan Adnan
This essay provides theoretical and empirical analysis of the interrelationships between land grabs, primitive accumulation and accumulation by dispossession (ABD) in the context of capitalist development. Evidence from a multi-class peasant formation in deltaic Bangladesh indicates that land grabs ...
Hanne Svarstad, Ragnhild Overå, Tor A. Benjaminsen
Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to provide detailed presentations of various uses of power, involving corporate and conservation interventions influencing access to land and natural resources. The results include struggle...
Nesar Ahmed, Stephen T. Garnett
Benjamin K. Sovacool
Bangladesh contributes little to global greenhouse gas emissions, yet it is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change. Based on semi-structured research interviews as a conduit to a literature review, this paper shows how the processes of enclosure, exclusion, encroachment, and entrench...
<title>Abstract</title> A comparative study between Asian agricultural development during the Green Revolution in food production and the current problematic agricultural situation in sub-Saharan Africa is presented. Case studies of eight African (viz. Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Niger...
Frédéric Baudron, B.G. Sims, Scott Justice, David Kahan et al.
Shelley Feldman, Charles Geisler
This paper examines land grabbing in Bangladesh and views such seizures through the lens of displacement and land encroachment. Two different but potentially interacting displacement processes are examined. The first, the char riverine and coastal sediment regions that are in a constant state of for...
Md Saidul Islam
Ghose Bishwajit, Sajeeb Sarker, Marce-Amara Kpoghomou, Hui Gao et al.
The objectives of this study are twofold. First, it attempts to show the general situation and production trend of rice. Then by relating it to the current status and future potential, it proposes that reaching self-sufficiency in rice production is the paramount item on the food security agenda in ...
Sharif A. Mukul, A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid, Mohammad Belal Uddin, Niaz Ahmed Khan
People in the developing world derive a significant part of their livelihoods from various forest products, particularly non-timber forest products (NTFPs). This article attempts to explore the contribution of NTFPs in sustaining forest-based rural livelihood in and around a protected area (PA) of B...