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Effects of Social Grants on Labor Supply and Food Security of South African Households: Is There a Disincentive Effect?
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This study assesses impacts of social grants on labor supply and food security of South African households. We use a unique set of data collected in rural Eastern Cape in 2011. We highlight the interaction of two key household endowments, gender and human capital, in catalyzing or retarding the...
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Exploring dimensions of place-power and culture in the social resilience of forest-dependent communities
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Over the last decade, the forest industry in Canada has been severely impacted by post-Fordist shifts in economic, political and land-tenure regimes, as well as ecological impacts related to climate change. Because of these impacts, many forest-based communities have lost mills and jobs and have...
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Fall 2020
Food security in developing countries is an essential component of welfare. However, the food security of households can be constrained by the lack of access to international markets, gender inequality, weak agricultural policies and institutions, climate change, and poverty. Smallholder farmers...
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Knowledge Mobilization for Sustainable Food Production: Nutrition Gardening and Fish Farming Communities of Practice in the Kolli Hills, India
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This study explores the importance of knowledge mobilization in the formation of more sustainable food systems. In particular, it examines the development and maintenance of sustainable food production practices that enhance food security for small farmers in the Kolli Hills, India. It uses...
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Spring 2013
Culture provides a lens through which to increase our understanding of community responses that both contribute to and detract from a population’s food security. This qualitative study using semi-structured interviews, observations and visual methodology identifies how culture is manifested...
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Moving through uncertain times: A morphogenetic approach to understanding people's response to crisis in two forest community contexts in rural British Columbia
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The degree to which individuals have agency to respond during crisis, and the degree to which social structure and culture influence their course of action, present compelling questions for understanding social change. The tradition of examining the interplay between agency and social structure,...
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Planning for the Future of Urban Mobility: Interviews with Planning Professionals in Five Major Canadian Cities
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Given that our urban centres have been dominated by the private car for a hundred years, this thesis asked what is next for Canadian cities. Previous research on the future of urban mobility, and specifically city planning and autonomous vehicles, has been from an American or Australian context....