Women's Empowerment has long been a hot topic along with the increasing awareness of gender equality. However, women farmers in rural areas, especially those marginalized, have not received sufficient attention. The long-term sustainable development of the agriculture sector is essentially related to basic survival needs of human beings and thus, paying more attention to rural farming women

The implementation step of environmental policies has often been disregarded by researchers, who mainly focused on the policy-making process. Yet, implementation is crucial for the success of a policy. We looked at the influence of domestic factors in the implementation process to explain how countries members of the European Union that have similar administrative capacities yet obtain different i

Since the end of the 1999 war, Kosovo has received high flows of development assistance, thus becoming among the top beneficiaries per capita worldwide. The EU is the largest donor to Kosovo that aims to support the country’s development as well as the EU accession process. Despite the fact that development must be, primarily, autonomous, i.e. which cannot be imposed, but rather must come from wit

Public sector IT projects are often reported as being total disasters; going over budget and beyond their time frame for a poor quality final product. However, IT failures are not unique for the public sector. As a response to poor IT development, many organisations are now transforming to agile. Grounded in the Agile Manifesto, the agile approach is a collective, iterative and user-centric approa

Degrowth scholars have been criticised for focusing too much on theory and macro-level of analysis, giving less attention to actual degrowth practices that happen at the local level. This thesis aims to make a contribution to this second field of degrowth research. Drawing on a practice theory approach, the objective of the study was to find whether degrowth practices and ideas have the potential

Long working-hour problem in Korea has been prevalent for many years. Compare to other countries, it has been one of the countries which have the longest working-hour in the world. As working long hours is directly related to employees‟ work-life balance, job satisfaction, health and more, previous researches as well as political attempts have tried to resolve this chronic problem. Previous approa

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the EU and the member states. There is a vide range of theoretical approaches intended to develop a greater comprehension in why European integration take place and how the political process within the EU can be explained. This study aims to test two competing integration theories, Liberal Intergovernmentalism and Sociological Instit

This study seeks to understand how non-timber forest product (NTFP) commercialisation is promoted in the Yayu Coffee Biosphere Reserve (YCFBR) in South West Ethiopia, local stakeholder perceptions and the potential of NTFP - or ‘biodiversity-based’ - value chains to address social development and forest conservation. The study was conducted based on a literature review and in-depth interviews wit

Pastörisering av drycker och flytande föda är nödvändigt dels för att göra produkten säker men också för att förlänga hållbarheten. Vid pastörisering höjs temperaturen på produkten i en värmeväxlare med värmeväxling från ett varmt medium, oftast varmvatten. Bakterier av olika slag dör vid en viss temperatur som hålls i en viss tid beroende på vilken slags pastörisering som krävs. Då en produkt skaThe purpose of this master thesis project was to compare two pasteurizers (pasteurizer 31 and 52) at Österlenmejeriet AB (ÖMAB) in Lunnarp, which is a part of Danone, France and once the differences were clear the goal was to have them equalized in the aspect of heating effects/temperature treatments/heating load and processing parameters. The products that are mainly pasteurized on these pasteuri

Community-based natural resources management (CBNRM) is often promoted a way to address natural resources challenges while empowering communities and improving livelihoods. However, empirical evidence has shown that CBNRM does not always entail inclusive community engagement or result in the equitable distribution of costs and benefits. Women, in particular, are often excluded from participating i

Syftet med skadeståndet utgår från prevention och reparation. Skadestånd ska förmå människor att agera mer aktsamt, att avstå från ett visst skadligt agerande, i syfte att undvika skador. Detta ska i sin tur leda till ett tryggare och säkrare samhälle. De dispositiva skadeståndsrättsliga reglerna i SkL har historiskt haft starkt samband med straffrätten. SkL trädde i kraft 1972 men innebar ingen sThe purpose of the tort law is based on prevention and repair. Being forced to pay damages is intended to cause people to act more cautiously, to refrain from certain harmful actions, in order to avoid injuries. This will lead to a safe and sound society. The Liability for Damages Act came into force in 1972 but meant no major change regarding the assessment of the liability for damages, it is sti

För närmare åtta år sedan, 2011, ändrade Högsta domstolen (HD) sin tidigare praxis avseende tolkningen av 1 kap. 2 § andra stycket brottsbalken (BrB) – alltså det lagrum som reglerar uppsåt vid självförvållat rus. Den nya tolkningen innebar att uppsåt i dessa fall skulle behandlas enligt vanliga regler om uppsåt. Det är således inte längre fråga om att fingera uppsåt, inte ens i någon mån. SuzanneNearly eight years ago, in 2011, the supreme court of Sweden changed its previously established practice regarding the interpretation of Chapter 1, art. 2, 2nd paragraph of the Penal Code1 where intent and self-induced intoxication are addressed. A consequence of the new interpretation was that criminal intent in such cases of intoxication should instead be tried as intent in general and thus ther

France has for a long time been affected by social movements which have now become commonplace in the society. Research interested in the specificities of this country has especially shown the importance of trade unions in the organization of the actions. However, unlike its French predecessors, the Yellow Vests movement developed and organized itself with the exclusive use of digital media, just

Exjobbet syftar till att öka förståelsen för hur beslutsfattande och samverkan påverkas av olika incitament och erfarenhet inom ramen av svensk krishantering. Därför togs följande två primära frågeställningar fram: - Är det skillnader i samverkan och beslutsfattande mellan erfarna och oerfarna personer? - Hur påverkar enkla/dubbla incitament viljan att samarbeta och utfallet av den gemensamma insaThis paper aims to increase the knowledge on how decision making is impacted by different incentives and different levels of collaboration. Experiments were carried out in a micro world called MikroRisk in groups of three students each, where half of the groups had simple incentives and the other half had double incentives. Simple incentives meant that the group members only had to concentrate on

International students at Lund University are constantly engaged with their mobile devices. Communication conducted through these devices across a variety of digital and social media platforms facilitates a significant amount of everyday communication, on both a local and transnational level. The overall aim of this thesis is to examine how these increasingly digitally mediated communicative pract

Studiens syfte är att undersöka sambandet mellan VD-brevet och svenska företags (OMXS30) finansiella ställning utifrån resultat, lönsamhet, finansiellrisk och finansiering. Uppsatsen tar sin utgångspunkt i signalteori och intressentteorin. Referensrambaseras på olika forskningsartiklar och kurslitteraturer. Studiens syfte uppnås genom deduktiv metod där 30 mest omsatta företagen i Sverige analyser

Cosmopolitan theory has long argued that the world is becoming increasingly interconnected. Through borderless phenomena such as climate change, and through globalizing processes such as cross-border mobility and the global market, we are becoming increasingly aware of their social and political impact as global news and debates fill our social media channels. To this end, cosmopolitan theory argu

Mediation processes are becoming increasingly salient in western society, and since tourism is one of the characteristics of modern societies the tourism practices follow this increase. The increasing emphasis on the visual as a prominent sense for our understanding of the physical world has led to increase desire for photography. Social media has created platforms for new remedies of photo sharin

This thesis seeks to discover what are the consequences of the value gap, for the emerging artists and the music industry by critically evaluating the concept of value gap and what it means for the music industry. This will also lead the way to discovering how emerging artists are “making it” in the era of music streaming, and which aspects are playing a significant role in this. In addition, the