Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Lund, Ragnhild"
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Land grab in Ethiopia : the case of Karuturi Agro Products PLC in Bako Tibe, Oromiya
Aga, Dejene Nemomsa (Master thesis, 2014)This study examined the opportunities and risks associated with land grabbing in Ethiopia, focusing on the case of Karuturi Agro Products Private Limited Company in Bako Tibe of Oromiya National Regional State, using ... -
Land Injustices – Tracing the Impact of Land Development Projects on Farmers’ Land Justice in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Mkwela, Hawa Suleiman (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2016:248, Doctoral thesis, 2016) -
Living in Transition: Peasant-Workers Working Between Farmland and the Workplaces of the Urban in Post-Deng China
Jakobsen, Thomas Sætre (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:178, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Summary of the thesis: Deng Xiaoping China´s ascendancy into the "workshop of the world" is largely premised upon the supply of cheap labor from the countryside. The 277 million strong army of peasant-workers generally ... -
Living Transnational Lives: Investigating the Role of ICTs in Transnational Migrants’ Identity Formation
Rognan, Camilla (Master thesis, 2013)In a globalized world, the recent developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and transportation have facilitated international migration in ways that have led to great increases in this type of ... -
Living under the electricity load shedding in Ghana : a case study of business in Accra Newtown and residences in North Legon suburbs of Accra, Ghana
Ogbe, Michael (Master thesis, 2015)In this twenty-first century, electricity has become the pivot of global activities. Electricity has become the engine for social development and economic growth (Pachauri et al., 2011). The world lives and operates on ... -
Migration of Ethiopian youth to the Middle East and its impacts on the migrants’ sending community : Raya- Mehoni Town
Muhamed, Seid Ebrahim (Master thesis, 2016)In this contemporary era of globalization, though political barriers still matter, there is an increasing movement of people crossing borders of nation states. Even though migration studies in Ethiopia remain focused on ... -
Mobility as a livelihood strategy : challenges and transformation of Myanmarese women migrant workers in Mizoram, India
Suante, Niang Suan Huai (Master thesis, 2018)This thesis explores how mobility as a livelihood strategy transformed the role and livelihoods of Myanmarese women migrant workers in Mizoram, India. Through the use of feminist analytical lens, I presented the experiences ... -
My aging experiences no longer count, is there not a cause? : examining the impacts of senior citizen grants on wellbeing of the elderly in Kiboga District-Uganda
Nalwanga, Rebecca (Master thesis, 2016)The current conversation is one of global citizenship, which binds together national and international actors in the field of development to work towards realizing a full set of rights for all global citizens. International ... -
Narratives of Hope? Displacement Narratives of Liberian Refugee Women and Children in the Gomoa-Budumburam Refugee Camp in Ghana.
Tete, Suzanne Y. A. (Master thesis, 2005)The refugee problem is a canker in contemporary human affairs without the ‘limboness’ that protractedness adds to it. Yet many refugee situations, especially in Africa, become forgotten emergencies as women assume new roles ... -
Neocolonial agenda: Agrarian transformations in Ethiopia and Sri Lanka
Lund, Ragnhild; Baudouin, Axel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The aim of the article is to show how neocolonial development has led to increasing ‘de-agrarianisation’ despite agricultural expansion, and this is at the expense of peasant production and pastoralism. Based on the authors’ ... -
Perceptions on the importance of land and agriculture : a case study of Lusoke Village, Zambia
Malambo, Miyanda (Master thesis, 2014)Globalization brings many changes which are not limited to urban areas. The rural in the global south has also been touched by global processes such as modernization and urbanization. As a result, the livelihood strategy ... -
Places of Belonging: Exploring the everyday of primary school pupils in Tororo, Uganda
Emong-Overå, Ingrid K. (Master thesis, 2013)This thesis explores the lived experiences of school children in Tororo District, Uganda. The aim of this study has been to understand how children and childhood are understood in their local contexts of eastern Uganda, ... -
SAMLING I BONN: En studie av historien bak Kyoto-protokollen og dens mekanismer. Er mekanismene et verktøy for å nå det objektive målet i protokollen, eller bare en billig unnskyldning?
Tvedt, Geir (Master thesis, 2007)ABSTRACT AGREEMENT IN BONN − A study of the Kyoto Protocol’s historical formation and the flexible mechanisms. Are they a tool to reach the objective goal in the Protocol or just a cheap excuse? Master thesis in Geography, ... -
Social integration of Nepalese immigrants into Norwegian society: Enabling and challenging factors
Paudel, Sandhya (Master thesis, 2018)This research is about social integration of Nepalese immigrant in Norway. It aims to examine the enabling and challenging factor in the social integration of Nepalese immigrants in Norway. The research used qualitative ... -
The Development and role of Kataragama as a sacred place in post-war Sri Lanka : through comparison of a Syncretic Festival with everyday Buddhist hegemony
Karlsen, Guri Strand (Master thesis, 2017)The religious complex of Kataragama located in southeast Sri Lanka is explored as a place from a cultural-geography perspective in this thesis. It was chosen due to the multicultural attributes it has through the veneration ... -
The Geographies of citizenship in the greater Mekong sub-region : the deterritorialized citizenships of refutable mobile Myanmar laborers in Suburban Bangkok Periphery
Arboleya, Andrea Menéndez (Master thesis, 2017)According to recent statistics published by the International Labor Organization, it is estimated that around 150 million people are currently working in a country different from their own country of birth. When resettling ... -
The Impact of MNCs, International Companies and FDI on the Development of Low-income Countries; Case Study of Ethiopia.
Lindhagen, Ragna Oline Nordland (Master thesis, 2020)Det er en lang diskusjon om multinasjonale selskaper (MNS) og deres utenlandske innvirkning på lavinntektsland, men med denne oppgaven ønsker jeg å forstå nøyaktig hvordan og om utenlandske investorer og selskaper kan ... -
The Impacts of Ecotourism on Local Livelihoods: A Case Study of Knuckles Conservation Forest in Sri Lanka
Ekanayaka, Aloka (Master thesis, 2013)Ecotourism is increasingly recognized as a form of alternative tourism which is viable to achieve a number of social, economic and environmental goals of tourism in a sustainable way. In a protected area setting, ecotourism ... -
The Practice of Chhaupadi: The Link Between Local Cultural Understanding and Women’s Rights in Rural Nepal
Sandbakken, Line Djernæs (Master thesis, 2011)This thesis explores how women’s lived experiences are shaped by traditional cultureand power structures, through examining the case of chhaupadi and its implications on women’s lives. The practice of chhaupadi is widespread ... -
The Role and Development of Grassroots NGOs in Eastern China
Li, Yuejin (Master thesis, 2012)The rapid development of the market economy has confronted China with a diversity of social changes in the public management and governance structure. NGOs make up for the lack of national capacity, providing a platform ...