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- 1Manyeh, Marie A.
- 4Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
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- 2Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Department of
- 2Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Department of/Working Papers (Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology)
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Factors Constraining Women Farmers' Access to Agricultural Extension Services in Sierra Leone
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Murray, Eloise C., Matthews, Bennett, Gill, Dhara S., Manyeh, Marie A.
Women farmers in Africa traditionally have been involved in various aspects of farming while receiving little of the infrastructural support that male farmers enjoy. This study on access to agricultural extension services among the women of Sierra Leone illustrates the situation faced by women...
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Fall 2017
My research uses a framework of vulnerability and community economy to understand how Inuit practices of sharing need to be reflected in federal food policies for Inuit to be able to meet their food needs. I specifically draw on the work of feminist theorists such as Judith Butler, and Erin...
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Queering Food Access: A Qualitative Analysis of Intersectional Lived Experiences of LGBTQIA2S+ University Students with Food Insecurity in the American South
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Food insecurity affects 29% of adults (2.4 million people) annually in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, agender, asexual, and Two-Spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) community (Gates, 2014). The college and university student population has a similarly high rate of food...
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Reframing Agricultural Extension Education Services in Industrially Developed Countries: A Canadian Perspective
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Some of the material discussed in this paper was initially presented to a group of professionals in the Cooperative Extension Unit of the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education. In keeping with the theme of the session 'Extension's Odyssey to the Future' it became necessary to...
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Reimaging Resource Constraints and Affordances: Smallholder, Environment and State Dynamics in Wello, Ethiopia
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In this dissertation, I explore and analyze smallholders’ perceptual and cultural understandings of environmental opportunities and constraints regarding land, soil, rain and trees in mixed-crop-livestock agriculture among rural communities of Wärräbabbo in Wello, northeast Ethiopia. Also, I...
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The Influence of Gender and Food Insecurity on the Eating Practices of Poor, Pregnant Women in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the interaction between rising levels of food insecurity in the urban setting and the existing gender structures and their impact on eating practices while pregnant. Using a focused-ethnography with a feminist approach in an urban slum in Dhaka,...