Ruth Haug
Biographic Data
| ID | 238290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Haug |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Haug |
| SIGNATURE | HAUG R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Life Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1023-1884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Empowerment or Disempowerment through Formalization? The Case of Women Entrepreneurs in Food Processing in Northern Ethiopia
The purpose of this study is to assess the possible contribution of formalizing small-scale women entrepreneurs' food processing enterprises in northern Ethiopia to their empowerment or disempowerment. The rationale for evaluating this contribution to (dis)empowerment is to provide updated and policy-relevant knowledge on the issue, including assessing if the critiques of the formalization agenda are still valid or whether the situation may have …
Flood hazard in a semi‐closed basin in northern Ethiopia
Even though flooding is a threat to rural communities in plains drained by ephemeral rivers, the magnitude of its impact, coping/prevention mechanisms, and the implications for river management are not well known. In this study, data were collected using a phenomenological‐based research design. Field observations, a questionnaire ( n = 440), key informant interviews (10), and one focus group discussion (with seven discussants) were used to colle…
Introduction
Climate change introduces new challenges for humanitarian aid through changing hazard patterns. The linkages between climate change and humanitarian aid are complex. While humanitarian organisations deal directly with vulnerable opulations, interventions and actions also form part of global politics and development pathways that are currentlygenerating climate change, inequities and vulnerability.This IDS Bulletin represents a call for increasing…
Social Protection or Humanitarian Assistance
The purpose of this article is to assess factors that contributed to the apparent success of the Farm Input Support Programme (FISP) in the period 2005–15, and discuss the lessons that can be learned from this experience in relation to climate change adaptation. Important factors were the ability to balance external and internal drivers that affected policy formulation, national ownership and prestige that influenced and motivated implementation …
Polarised narratives and complex realities in Tanzania's Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor
This article assesses the controversy surrounding a high-profile agricultural investment initiative, the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT), which aims to modernise, commercialise, and transform Tanzania’s agricultural sector. Drawing on a review of SAGCOT literature and findings from consultations with SAGCOT stakeholders and intended beneficiaries, the article outlines the polarised narratives of “opportunity” and “risk”…
The vulnerability and resilience of smallholder-inclusive agricultural investments in Tanzania
This paper compares and contrasts two cases of smallholderinclusive agricultural investment in Tanzania and investigates the factors that shape their vulnerability and resilience to risks and uncertainties that influence their performance and viability as a development strategy. Drawing on observations and interviews with smallholders, key informants and management and staff of two large-scale rice and sugarcane estates, we discuss how the divisi…
High global food prices - crisis or opportunity for smallholder farmers in Tanzania
The recent food-price crisis has contributed towards a huge increase in the number of hungry people in the world. The main purpose of this article is to use empirical data collected from food-surplus and food-deficit study districts to assess to what degree, and how, high food prices have affected smallholder farmers in Tanzania when it comes to production, income, food security, and livelihood security. The main finding is that some smallholder …
Reinveting Development Research
Development research, despite or due to its emergence out of the colonial and postcolonial era, seeks to make a difference by focusing on issues of power and marginality. This makes it even more loaded and contested than other kinds of research, along with the responsibility to have policy influence. Despite tremendous achievements in development indicators, which researchers must subject to critical scrutiny, several challenges remain. These inc…
Realising the Right to Food by Integrating Human Rights in Poverty Reduction Strategies
Discourses of development and discourses of human rights have evolved in parallel, sharing the same overall aim of increased human well-being, but offering different theoretical frameworks and tools for reaching this aim. The article assesses the efficaciousness of integrating food as a human right thinking in the ongoing poverty reduction processes. A combination of the two adds value to both approaches and emerges more powerful by marrying law …
Forced Migration, Processes of Return and Livelihood Construction among Pastoralists in Northern Sudan
The Hawaweer, a nomadic, pastoralist group in northern Sudan, were seriously affected by the drought in the Sahel during the mid-1980s. Their experience illustrates the connection between internally displaced people, normal mobility, forced migration, dilemmas and opportunities of return and how new livelihoods can be successfully constructed based on traditional rights, strong local institutions and external resources. Some displaced Hawaweer go…
Interdisciplinarity in Development Studies
The article suggests a conceptualisation of interdisciplinarity that focuses on degree of integration. It concerns itself with the importance of clarifying ambiguities related to the term. Five myths are identified as deriving from conceptual ambiguity, and the article refutes them, arguing that they need to be recognised as myths and laid to rest. The myths are as follows: Disciplines are homogeneous, monolithic entities; theory from natural and…
From Integrated Rural Development to Sustainable Livelihoods
Ruth Haug, ‘From Integrated Development to Sustainable Livelihoods: What is the Role of Food and Agriculture?’, Forum for Development Studies, 1999: 2, pp. 181–201. The article reviews different paradigms which have dominated the discussions on how to facilitate rural development and livelihood security in the South, viewed from a food and agriculture entry point. The article focuses on food security as one of the important elements of sustainabl…
Measuring Household Food Security
Ingrid Nyborg and Ruth Haug: ‘Measuring Household Food Security: A Participatory Process Approach’, Forum for Development Studies, 1995:1, pp. 29–59. The meaning of food security has changed significantly in recent years, making it difficult for development agents to adequately address the issue in projects, even when it appears as a major goal. The authors, in an attempt to clarify the concept, provide a comprehensive overview of the current the…
Forced Migration, Processes of Return and Livelihood Construction among Pastoralists in Northern Sudan
The Hawaweer, a nomadic, pastoralist group in northern Sudan, were seriously affected by the drought in the Sahel during the mid-1980s. Their experience illustrates the connection between internally displaced people, normal mobility, forced migration, dilemmas and opportunities of return and how new livelihoods can be successfully constructed based on traditional rights, strong local institutions and external resources. Some displaced Hawaweer go…
The vulnerability and resilience of smallholder-inclusive agricultural investments in Tanzania
This paper compares and contrasts two cases of smallholderinclusive agricultural investment in Tanzania and investigates the factors that shape their vulnerability and resilience to risks and uncertainties that influence their performance and viability as a development strategy. Drawing on observations and interviews with smallholders, key informants and management and staff of two large-scale rice and sugarcane estates, we discuss how the divisi…
Reinveting Development Research
Development research, despite or due to its emergence out of the colonial and postcolonial era, seeks to make a difference by focusing on issues of power and marginality. This makes it even more loaded and contested than other kinds of research, along with the responsibility to have policy influence. Despite tremendous achievements in development indicators, which researchers must subject to critical scrutiny, several challenges remain. These inc…
Polarised narratives and complex realities in Tanzania's Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor
This article assesses the controversy surrounding a high-profile agricultural investment initiative, the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT), which aims to modernise, commercialise, and transform Tanzania’s agricultural sector. Drawing on a review of SAGCOT literature and findings from consultations with SAGCOT stakeholders and intended beneficiaries, the article outlines the polarised narratives of “opportunity” and “risk”…
Flood hazard in a semi‐closed basin in northern Ethiopia
Even though flooding is a threat to rural communities in plains drained by ephemeral rivers, the magnitude of its impact, coping/prevention mechanisms, and the implications for river management are not well known. In this study, data were collected using a phenomenological‐based research design. Field observations, a questionnaire ( n = 440), key informant interviews (10), and one focus group discussion (with seven discussants) were used to colle…
Introduction
Climate change introduces new challenges for humanitarian aid through changing hazard patterns. The linkages between climate change and humanitarian aid are complex. While humanitarian organisations deal directly with vulnerable opulations, interventions and actions also form part of global politics and development pathways that are currentlygenerating climate change, inequities and vulnerability.This IDS Bulletin represents a call for increasing…
Social Protection or Humanitarian Assistance
The purpose of this article is to assess factors that contributed to the apparent success of the Farm Input Support Programme (FISP) in the period 2005–15, and discuss the lessons that can be learned from this experience in relation to climate change adaptation. Important factors were the ability to balance external and internal drivers that affected policy formulation, national ownership and prestige that influenced and motivated implementation …
High global food prices - crisis or opportunity for smallholder farmers in Tanzania
The recent food-price crisis has contributed towards a huge increase in the number of hungry people in the world. The main purpose of this article is to use empirical data collected from food-surplus and food-deficit study districts to assess to what degree, and how, high food prices have affected smallholder farmers in Tanzania when it comes to production, income, food security, and livelihood security. The main finding is that some smallholder …
Interdisciplinarity in Development Studies
The article suggests a conceptualisation of interdisciplinarity that focuses on degree of integration. It concerns itself with the importance of clarifying ambiguities related to the term. Five myths are identified as deriving from conceptual ambiguity, and the article refutes them, arguing that they need to be recognised as myths and laid to rest. The myths are as follows: Disciplines are homogeneous, monolithic entities; theory from natural and…
From Integrated Rural Development to Sustainable Livelihoods
Ruth Haug, ‘From Integrated Development to Sustainable Livelihoods: What is the Role of Food and Agriculture?’, Forum for Development Studies, 1999: 2, pp. 181–201. The article reviews different paradigms which have dominated the discussions on how to facilitate rural development and livelihood security in the South, viewed from a food and agriculture entry point. The article focuses on food security as one of the important elements of sustainabl…
Measuring Household Food Security
Ingrid Nyborg and Ruth Haug: ‘Measuring Household Food Security: A Participatory Process Approach’, Forum for Development Studies, 1995:1, pp. 29–59. The meaning of food security has changed significantly in recent years, making it difficult for development agents to adequately address the issue in projects, even when it appears as a major goal. The authors, in an attempt to clarify the concept, provide a comprehensive overview of the current the…
From Integrated Rural Development to Sustainable Livelihoods
Ruth Haug, ‘From Integrated Development to Sustainable Livelihoods: What is the Role of Food and Agriculture?’, Forum for Development Studies, 1999: 2, pp. 181–201. The article reviews different paradigms which have dominated the discussions on how to facilitate rural development and livelihood security in the South, viewed from a food and agriculture entry point. The article focuses on food security as one of the important elements of sustainabl…
Interdisciplinarity in Development Studies
The article suggests a conceptualisation of interdisciplinarity that focuses on degree of integration. It concerns itself with the importance of clarifying ambiguities related to the term. Five myths are identified as deriving from conceptual ambiguity, and the article refutes them, arguing that they need to be recognised as myths and laid to rest. The myths are as follows: Disciplines are homogeneous, monolithic entities; theory from natural and…
Realising the Right to Food by Integrating Human Rights in Poverty Reduction Strategies
Discourses of development and discourses of human rights have evolved in parallel, sharing the same overall aim of increased human well-being, but offering different theoretical frameworks and tools for reaching this aim. The article assesses the efficaciousness of integrating food as a human right thinking in the ongoing poverty reduction processes. A combination of the two adds value to both approaches and emerges more powerful by marrying law …
Forced Migration, Processes of Return and Livelihood Construction among Pastoralists in Northern Sudan
The Hawaweer, a nomadic, pastoralist group in northern Sudan, were seriously affected by the drought in the Sahel during the mid-1980s. Their experience illustrates the connection between internally displaced people, normal mobility, forced migration, dilemmas and opportunities of return and how new livelihoods can be successfully constructed based on traditional rights, strong local institutions and external resources. Some displaced Hawaweer go…
Reinveting Development Research
Development research, despite or due to its emergence out of the colonial and postcolonial era, seeks to make a difference by focusing on issues of power and marginality. This makes it even more loaded and contested than other kinds of research, along with the responsibility to have policy influence. Despite tremendous achievements in development indicators, which researchers must subject to critical scrutiny, several challenges remain. These inc…
High global food prices - crisis or opportunity for smallholder farmers in Tanzania
The recent food-price crisis has contributed towards a huge increase in the number of hungry people in the world. The main purpose of this article is to use empirical data collected from food-surplus and food-deficit study districts to assess to what degree, and how, high food prices have affected smallholder farmers in Tanzania when it comes to production, income, food security, and livelihood security. The main finding is that some smallholder …
Introduction
Climate change introduces new challenges for humanitarian aid through changing hazard patterns. The linkages between climate change and humanitarian aid are complex. While humanitarian organisations deal directly with vulnerable opulations, interventions and actions also form part of global politics and development pathways that are currentlygenerating climate change, inequities and vulnerability.This IDS Bulletin represents a call for increasing…
Social Protection or Humanitarian Assistance
The purpose of this article is to assess factors that contributed to the apparent success of the Farm Input Support Programme (FISP) in the period 2005–15, and discuss the lessons that can be learned from this experience in relation to climate change adaptation. Important factors were the ability to balance external and internal drivers that affected policy formulation, national ownership and prestige that influenced and motivated implementation …
Polarised narratives and complex realities in Tanzania's Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor
This article assesses the controversy surrounding a high-profile agricultural investment initiative, the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT), which aims to modernise, commercialise, and transform Tanzania’s agricultural sector. Drawing on a review of SAGCOT literature and findings from consultations with SAGCOT stakeholders and intended beneficiaries, the article outlines the polarised narratives of “opportunity” and “risk”…
The vulnerability and resilience of smallholder-inclusive agricultural investments in Tanzania
This paper compares and contrasts two cases of smallholderinclusive agricultural investment in Tanzania and investigates the factors that shape their vulnerability and resilience to risks and uncertainties that influence their performance and viability as a development strategy. Drawing on observations and interviews with smallholders, key informants and management and staff of two large-scale rice and sugarcane estates, we discuss how the divisi…
Flood hazard in a semi‐closed basin in northern Ethiopia
Even though flooding is a threat to rural communities in plains drained by ephemeral rivers, the magnitude of its impact, coping/prevention mechanisms, and the implications for river management are not well known. In this study, data were collected using a phenomenological‐based research design. Field observations, a questionnaire ( n = 440), key informant interviews (10), and one focus group discussion (with seven discussants) were used to colle…
Empowerment or Disempowerment through Formalization? The Case of Women Entrepreneurs in Food Processing in Northern Ethiopia
The purpose of this study is to assess the possible contribution of formalizing small-scale women entrepreneurs' food processing enterprises in northern Ethiopia to their empowerment or disempowerment. The rationale for evaluating this contribution to (dis)empowerment is to provide updated and policy-relevant knowledge on the issue, including assessing if the critiques of the formalization agenda are still valid or whether the situation may have …
Geography (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Food security (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Development economics (4 works)