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Browsing Theses & Dissertations by Author "Isakson, S. Ryan"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)Across the developing world, globalisation is forcing tremendous change on the economies and societies that it encounters; the small agricultural economies of the Caribbean are no exception. The globalisation of governance ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)In this thesis I respond to one of Ian Scoones' (2009) identified failures of livelihoods perspectives: a lack of rigorous attempts to deal with long-term change in environmental conditions. I seek to address the increasing ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)The recent rise in land grabbing in the Global South has sparked an intense debate about how land grabbing impacts the rural poor. International development organizations have claimed that these investments, with the support ...
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(Halifax, N.S.: Saint Mary's University, 2010)This thesis explores the link between social justice and decentralization at the theoretical and empirical level. The central argument is that decentralization as prescribed by the good governance agenda has compromised ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)Adopted in 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) offer a new way to achieve development. The Millennium Project asserts that MDGs will be best achieved within a country by tailoring their poverty reduction strategy ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)The attainment of food security has long been an important issue in the field of development. Interestingly, a large percentage of those considered to ‘food insecure’ belong to the households of small‐scale agricultural ...
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Microfinance, gender and empowerment : meeting practical and strategic needs among low-income women (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)With the international community rallying behind microfinance's uplifting performance, microfinance has become nothing more than a mirage, distorting the realities of its empowering impacts. With poverty concentrated among ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) declared that genetic diversity, considered for centuries to be the common heritage of humankind, would become the property of the sovereign state in which it is contained. The ...
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