Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark

Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania (EveryHumanTZ)

Project summary Since an upsurge of unrest in Burundi in 2015, 258,000 refugees have crossed into Tanzania, making it the largest recipient of Burundian refugees in the East African region. Tanzania…
Tanzania
No keywords specified
Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark
Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Department of Management, Society and Communication
University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark
Total grant
12,000,000

Climate smart cocoa systems for Ghana (CLIMCOCOA)

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is the third highest export commodity of Ghana and represents the most important source of revenue for numerous small scale farmers. Climate change (CC) in the form of…
Ghana
agroforestry
capacity building
climate change
cropping systems
livelihoods
University of Ghana (UG), Ghana
University of Ghana (UG), Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID)
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ghana
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kenya
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Total grant
9,990,278
http://www.ug.edu.gh/geography-climcocoa

Informal worker organisation and social protection

This project will investigate emerging collective forms of informal worker organisation in the Global South (focusing on Kenya and Tanzania) and their implications for social protection. Rather than…
Kenya
Tanzania
empowerment
labour
organizations
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation
University of Nairobi (UoN), Institute for Development Studies
Mzumbe University (MU), Institute of Development Studies
University of Greenwich, Livelihoods & Institutions Department, UK
Total grant
9,898,063
https://ruc.dk/informal-worker-organisation-and-social-protection

Hierarchies of Rights: Land and Investments in Africa

The main aim of the research program is to analyse how struggles related to large-scale investments into natural resources affect small-holders’ rights to land in Sub-Saharan Africa. It tests the…
Mozambique
Tanzania
foreign investment
human rights
land ownership
natural resources
political power
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation
University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Institute of Resource Assessment (IRA)
University of Eduardo Mondlane, Dept. of Political Science and Public Administration, Mozambique
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark
Total grant
9,969,902
http://www.ruc.dk/hierarchies

Governing economic hubs and flows in Somali East Africa

This research and capacity-building project contributes to a better understanding of key economic and political processes that have shaped state formation in the Somali territories since 1991. The…
Ethiopia
Kenya
Somalia
Somaliland
security
fragile states
governance
political power
trade
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation
Forum for Social Studies, Ethiopia
University of Hargeisa, Somaliland, Somalia
University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark
Total grant
9,963,719
http://govsea.tumblr.com/

REDD+, -the forest grab of all times?

Forests play an important role for the livelihoods of poor people in developing countries. Yet, the poor often lack legal rights to the forest resources that they depend on. This renders them highly…
Indonesia
Vietnam
access
decentralization
deforestation
governance
monitoring
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Faculty of Science
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Faculty of Science, Department of Food and Resource Economics
Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Department of Forest Resources Conservation, Indonesia
Hanoi University of Agriculture (HUA), Center for Agricultural Research and Ecological Studies (CARES)
Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Cultural Studies (ICS), Vietnam
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Total grant
8,994,436
http://www.ifro.ku.dk/reddplus

Social and Environmental Resilience in Upland Areas of Vietnam. Responses in Land Use and Livelihood Strategies

The proposed PhD-research addresses the issue of vulnerability in relation to climate change in upland areas of Vietnam and views vulnerability and resilience as determinants of adaptive capacity. The…
Vietnam
climate change
coping strategies
land use
livelihoods
sustainability
upland areas
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation
Total grant
2,505,553

Minimizing the exclusionary effects of standards. What works?

Private agricultural sustainability standards have been found to have exclusionary effects on Southern women and smallholders. Standards may deny marginalized actors market access or offer access only…
Kenya
standards
agricultural products
auditing
certification
cut flowers
trade barriers
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation
Total grant
2,362,417

Masculinity, sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Zambian prisons

The spread of HIV/AIDS is deeply embedded in socio-economic realities of poverty and inequality. This research aims to shed light on experiences of incarcerated men, a group who are routinely…
Zambia
risk
sexual behaviour
social environment
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
human immunodeficiency viruses
prisons
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation
DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture, Denmark
Total grant
2,779,864

People Speaking Back? Media, Empowerment and Democracy in East Africa (MEDIeA)

MEDIeA’s analytical challenge is to understand the ways and means in which youth as ordinary citizens engage with civil society driven media and communication platforms and what socio-cultural and…
Kenya
Tanzania
democracy
empowerment
governance
mass media
participation
women
youth
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Communication Business and Information Technologies
University of Dar Es Salaam (UDSM), Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya
Total grant
5,544,977
http://mediea.ruc.dk/

West African Network for Studies of Environmental Change (WANSEC)

It is proposed to create a West African network, including the University of Dakar, Senegal, Technical University of Bamako, Mali, University of Ghana, Legon, and the University of Ouagadougou,…
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Mali
Senegal
research organizations
research projects
climate change
environmental impact
international cooperation
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Faculty of Science
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Faculty of Science, Department of Geography and Geology
University of Ouagadougou (OU), Department of Geography
University of Dakar, LERG, Senegal
University of Bamako, Department of Geology, Mali
University of Ghana (UG), Department of Sociology, Institute of African Studies Institute of Geography and Resource Development
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Total grant
5,275,836
http://www.ind.ku.dk/english/research/research_projects/wansec/

Structures of Stigma: Diagonal AIDS Care and Treatment Abandonment in Mozambique

From a predominantly political standpoint, informed by a multi-sited ethnographical case study in Mozambique, this project aims to provide a clear articulation of the relationship between curative…
Mozambique
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
antiretroviral agents
efficacy
ethnography
malnutrition
politics
treatment
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation
Total grant
2,147,963

Decentralisation and Local Governance of Land in Africa. Land Reform Implementation and Citizen Participation in Tanzania

Improved tenure security can help improve food security for the 75% of the world’s poor who live on the countryside and depend on access to land. The project investigates implementation of…
Tanzania
community involvement
decentralization
governance
land reform
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark
Ardhi University (ARU), Tanzania
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Total grant
2,820,437

Political process and social contest - A historical analysis of state-chief relations in Kpandai district, Northern Ghana

Recent decentralisation, the demarcation of a new district and the establishing of a district assembly in Kpandai, northern Ghana has given rise to a resurfacing of historically unresolved disputes…
Ghana
socioeconomics
microcredit
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation
Total grant
1,972,152

Air pollution modelling & Management of Urban air environment in Vietnam Context

On July 16. 2010, Mr. Ngo Tho Hung has submitted his Ph.D. dissertation report for assessment at the Graduate School for Environmental Stress Studies (GESS) in the Doctoral School of the Department of…
Vietnam
air pollution
models
urban areas
air quality
roadsides
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Environmental Social and Spatial Change
Total grant
478,163
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