Browsing Masters Theses by Author "Fridell, Gavin"

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Contemporary large-scale farmland acquisitions and food sovereignty : the case of smallholders in Sierra Leone

Timbo, Saidu (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)

Despite increasing modernization in agriculture globally, the majority of people in developing countries are still dependant on low input, limited technology smallholder farming for their food and livelihood. The 2007-2008 ...
Labour-centred development and decent work : a structuralist perspective on informal employment and trade union organizing in Uganda

Schminke, Tobias Gerhard (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)

The labour-centred development (LCD) approach emphasizes that development can only be brought about through the collective struggle of the labouring classes. Supporters of LCD undergird their argument by referring to the ...
The limitations of smart subsidies : a case study of Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme

Sadomba, Chiedza Lilias (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)

Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) has contributed significantly to maize production and productivity and national food self-sufficiency, and has been coined as “one of the most successful smart subsidies of the ...
Politics, power and unfair market concentration in the cocoa global value chain (GVC): analysing the prospects of the living income differential (LID) for achieving a just and sustainable livelihood for cocoa farmers in Ghana

Richard, Boakye (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)

Ghanaian cocoa farmers confront many social and economic challenges and are unable to pursue needed farm improvements because of insufficient and dwindling income. The income of farmers is too low for them to generate ...
The road to integration among Arab countries : assessing the political and economic barriers and possibilities

ElAlfy, Amr (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)

Arab countries attempts at regional integration started in the 1950s, but the goal of integration has produced very little substantive political or economic results. This lack of progress has blocked Arab countries from ...
Rural livelihoods and e-commerce : a case study of artisans in Guerrero, Mexico

Rehbein, Brie Katherine (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)

E-commerce is repeatedly recommended as a means of poverty reduction for rural artisans. However, presenting e-commerce as easily attainable ignores the many barriers and trivializes the value that less complex ICTs offer. ...
Smallholders, cooperatives, and food sovereignty in Tanzania : why a nation of farmers cannot feed its people

Jaworski, Matthew (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)

Although the world produces more food than ever before, close to one billion people remain hungry worldwide. This problem is especially critical in the Global South, where the majority of the population are food producers. ...
"Stalled progress" : regional integration in the Caribbean

Cato, Kwesi Moise (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)

Regional Integration as a means of development is a topic that is being explored today. Many countries, of which the Caribbean is no exception, have attempted to utilise this route to serve their economic developmental ...