The literature suggests both that entrepreneurship is a critical means of poverty alleviation,
and that entrepreneurial opportunity is at the heart of entrepreneurial activity. Yet the extant …

We examine enterprise processes in a poor rural fishing village in Ghana, having become
interested in why poverty persists in spite of considerable industry. Our case study uses the …

China's role in the global food system has expanded immensely in recent years. In the
seafood sector, it is now the largest consumer of seafood products in the world, making the …

Global change is threatening the production and livelihoods of millions of smallholders. The
capacity of smallholders to deal with such changes is influenced by the increasingly …

In West Africa, networks of traders have consistently played an important role in connecting
farmers to urban and rural food markets (Walther, 2014). These networks buy produce from …

Private, government, and corporate sectors increasingly seek to mitigate the precarious
economic and environmental conditions their businesses have caused. Given the …

In response to the global fisheries crisis new governance models have been developed. In
this thesis, I study one such model, Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs), that have increased …

This chapter shifts scale from Chap. 2 to focus on the local context and analyse the everyday
sets of social relationships that frame the lives of those engaged in fishing livelihoods. The …

Filipinos working abroad, known as Overseas Filipino Workers, regularly send cash
remittances and in-kind gifts (for example, cosmetics, vitamins, clothing) to family in the …

Social relationships play a pivotal role in agricultural systems because they influence the
economic behavior of stakeholders, but sociological studies aimed at understanding these …