Browsing Masters Theses by Author "Isakson, S. Ryan"

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A better strategy? : the evolving livelihood strategies of Caribbean banana and sugar workers in a globalised economy

Lake, Véron (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 ...
Environmental practices and the vulnerability of rural livelihoods to natural disasters : the differential impacts of Hurricane Janet and Hurricane Ivan upon mangrove-dependent livelihoods in Grenada

Watts, Steven D. (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 ...
Food security and the political economy of land grabbing : a case study of two food-producing projects in northern Madagascar

Clayton, Ashley Kathleen (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 ...
The good governance agenda for decentralization in Uttarakhand, India: implications for social justice

Giordano, Nicola (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 ...
Halving hunger by 2015? : an evaluation of the Millennium Development Goals and the conflicting food security initiatives in Ethiopia's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

Penner, Jessica (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 ...
Linking agroecology and household food security : producer experiences at the tianguis "Comida Sana y Cercana" in Chiapas, Mexico.

Horne, Sarah L. (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 ...
Microfinance, gender and empowerment : meeting practical and strategic needs among low-income women

Gideon, Tricia (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 ...
Sharing of benefits or enclosure of the commons? : investigating the compatibility of national and local access and benefit sharing mechanisms in Peru

Taylor, Emily Catherine (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 ...