Ongoing projects in Rural Development

Here you find links to currently ongoing research projects in Rural development.

What is secondary about secondary forest? Building smallholder forest futures in Peru’s Amazonian frontier Rural development Department of Urban and Rural Development Research The project investigates what forest futures can be built, by whom and how, at the forest frontiers in the Peruvian Amazon, and what the role of forest conservation policies are in this.
Learning from forest fires: Analysing unequal impacts, well-being and local knowledge and action Rural development Department of Urban and Rural Development Research An analysis of how forest fires unequally shape the well-being of local communities in three cases in Sweden, Spain and Chile.
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Forest Resource Use by Rural Communities in India Rural development Research
Creating evidence for forest based resilience during Covid-19 Rural development Research The project studies the role of forests in contributing to livelihood security at a time of unprecedented distress in order to identify policy mechanisms that can help build more secure and sustainable human-environment systems over the longer term.
Multi-cultural aspects of active aging: A cooperative study between Sweden and Indien Rural development Research Researchers at SLU and Mälardalen University are conducting a comparative study between Sweden and India with the aim of developing a new working model for the care staff's work with active aging. The project is funded by the Forte (the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare) and the Indian Council of Medical Research.
The Practice of Resilience in Mountain Landscapes: Exploring risk and landscape investments in rural Nepal Rural development Research This project investigates long-term landscape investments in order to understand how people’s landscape use and economic and social structures are mutually constituted with very different outcomes for different social groups in a hierarchical society such as Nepal contributing to the growing body of socio-political nuanced understandings of resilience and adaptive capacity, as well.
Reindeer herding: An indigenous food system in transition Rural development Research How can collaboration between researchers and reindeer herders contribute to new innovative forms for connecting producers and consumers of reindeer herding products?
Keys to a Living Country-side: Various forms of entrepreneurship in interaction with the surrounding environment Rural development Research The aim of the project is to develop new knowledge on the interaction between various forms of entrepreneurship and the surrounding country-side that influences the entrepreneurship developing there. (Cooperation with the Department of Economics, SLU)
Sweatshops at Sea: Labour reform in the Thai seafood supply chain via hybrid global governance Rural development Department of Urban and Rural Development Research The project investigates the implementation of hybrid global governance in the Thai seafood supply chain focusing on labour standards.
Revitalizing Community-managed Irrigation Systems in the Context of Out-migration in Nepal Rural development Research Gender This project seeks to identify the pathways through which a greater engagement of marginal groups can help to revitalize collective natural resource management. Such bottom-up processes of change could be a vital part of a long-term transition towards more equal access to resources and improved food security in rural households of the Global South.
Improved Disease Control by Community Participation: The case of African swine fever in northern Uganda Rural development Research Using multidisciplinary participatory methods, this project investigates the multiple reasons for farmer’s responses to disease, such as social pressures, poverty-related constraints, and lack of health and veterinary infrastructure. The project seeks to enable more effective policies for disease control, including promotion of control interventions that are feasible to self-sustainably implement (Collaboration with Swedish National Veterinary Institute & Makerere University).
Institutional Networks and Self-organized Adaptation: Tracing the democratic architectures of climate response Rural development Research This project develops the concept of self-organized adaptation to explore how democraticpolitical systems—comprised of multiple actors, institutions, and forms of state support—shape local responses to climate risk and change in Himalayan Nepal and India.
Innovation far from Major Growth Centres: Policy and practice to support economic development in Europe’s northern periphery Rural development Research How appropriate are theoretical perspectives developed in core regions when applied to the study, policy and practice of innovation in the periphery? This question will be answered by this project, which proposes two case studies of peripheral regions in the far north of Europe and thereby contributing to a re-balancing of the discourse around regional innovation and establish the periphery as a crucial element in our overall conception of economic development.
WEGO Rural development Research WEGO is a trans-national network that aims to develop a shared research and training agenda to educate the next generation of interdisciplinary social-environmental scientists on feminist political ecology in Europe. WEGO’s research examines gender relations in community organising from a feminist- informed political ecology (FPE) framework. From an international and interdisciplinary perspective, WEGO looks at gender and power relations in community responses to the current climate, economic...
Market Driven Afforestation: Trajectories in social resilience and environmental sustainability under land-use intensification Rural development Research The aim of the project is to identify and describe positive and negative trajectories in (i) rural household income and gender equity, (ii) agricultural production and food security, (iii) water-balance at landscape level and downstream, (iv) carbon sequestration in biomass and soil at landscape level and (v) soil fertility and long-term sustainability of agricultural and forest production, in the Amhara region in Ethiopia. (Cooperation with Department of Soil and Environment, SLU)
Conflict, Violence and Environmental Change: Investigating resource governance and legitimacy in transitional societies Rural development Research The aim of the project is to probe the concerns raised by environmental change for conflict and violence and to understand how we can respond more effectively to them.
Forest and Agrarian Transition, Smallholder Practices and the New Forms of Land Governance Rural development Research A project with the intention of building research collaboration among Brazil, Nepal and Peru.
Participatory Environmentalism: Mobilising citizens for air pollution mitigation and improved environmental health in India Rural development Research Environmental sciences The project examines the conditions which enable citizens to become actively engaged in pollution control for improved environmental health.
Farming Futures in Borderline Communities of Sweden and Australia Rural development Research The project investigates how changing local climatic conditions and urbanisation affects the transformation of agriculture-community linkages (ACL) in small communities that are located on critical climatic ‘lines’.
Researchers Perspective on Gene Technology Genetics and breeding Rural development Research Few subjects have been so debated as genetically modified organisms (GMO). Who has participated in this public discourse? And which arguments have dominated over time? This is what we want to find out, and we also want to know what impact the discourse have had on the legislation.
The Debate on GM-feed in Sweden and Swedish Farmers Genetics and breeding Rural development Research Few subjects have been so debated as genetically modified organisms (GMO). Who has participated in this public discourse? And which arguments have dominated the discourse over time? This is what we want to find out, and we also want to know what impact the discourse have had on the legislation.
”We are planting trees in Africa”: Swedish discourses and local effects of carbon forestry projects in African Rural development Research The project explores how Swedish consumers and actors perceive carbon compensation-motivated tree planting projects in African localities, and how imagined local social impacts relate to the realities in host countries.
Towards more Sustainable Consumption of Carbon Emission Reductions Rural development Research The project aims at developing a tool for assessing social dimensions of tree planting in low-income countries.
Women’s Entrepreneurship: For a living country-side? Rural development Research Gender This research project aims at making rural women's enterprises visible.
Entrepreneurship as Empowerment? Gendered opportunities and challenges in entrepreneurial urban and peri-urban agriculture in Rwanda Rural development Research Gender This project will explore how and why women, men and youth engage as entrepreneurs in UPA, which gendered and generational opportunities and challenges they face and how this influences their empowerment - in Kigali, Rwanda.

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