Agriculture is a significant cause of climate change, directly contributing an approximate 14 % o... more Agriculture is a significant cause of climate change, directly contributing an approximate 14 % of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and indirectly another 17 % through land use change (mainly deforestation). Although climate smart agriculture aims at improving food security, adaptation and mitigation, it does not imply that every recommended practice should necessarily be a ‘triple win’. Especially in developing countries, mitigation should be a co-benefit, while food security and adaptation are main priorities. Thus, climate-smartness underlines the importance of potential trade-offs between agricultural production and environmental impacts. Integrated ex-ante impact assessment can help policy and development decision makers in targeting and upscaling interventions and investments. This study presents results from a rapid ex-ante assessment of the climatesmartness of the technologies supported under the BMZ-GIZ programme on ‘Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food ...
This article focuses on mobile people who are largely overlooked in the contemporary studies of m... more This article focuses on mobile people who are largely overlooked in the contemporary studies of migration and mobility. Today, a rather limited but constantly growing number of people from Global North and Global South are wandering along transnational trajectories, without extended settlement anywhere in particular. They remain mobile because of inability to make the living they hoped for in the place of their origin, or because of being dissatisfied with the values or way of living in home society. Based on our fieldworks among Western liveaboards in the Mediterranean, new European nomads who engage in a mobile life between Europe and Africa, and popular class (sha’bi)1 Moroccan men in the transnational space between Morocco and Spain, we demonstrate the central characteristic of these lifestyles that we prefer to conceptualise as “marginal mobilities”: they are highly mobile, not entirely forced nor voluntary lifestyles, which occur along loosely defined travel trajectories; they...
The article is based on the detailed fieldwork that I conducted between 2003 and 2006 in Jesenice... more The article is based on the detailed fieldwork that I conducted between 2003 and 2006 in Jesenice. It is exploring the practices of covering among Slovenian Muslim women, specifically Bosniaks. It describes concrete practices of covering, analyses Koran ayat and hadith, religious foundations for covering, presents the most widespread interpretations by Islamic intellectuals and researchers, and lastly turns attention to Bosniak interpretations of primary Islamic sources and their concrete implementation in practice. Interpretations of Koran ayat and hadith in which the covering is justified, are various and are in different environments manifested through very different material shapes and practices. Different understandings of the practice of covering are influenced by factors such as individual's interpretations of Islam, education, personality and environment in which those interpretations take place, and is more important than Islamic sources, i.e the text. The same is relev...
The ever-increasing demand for water, food, and energy is putting unsustainable pressure on natur... more The ever-increasing demand for water, food, and energy is putting unsustainable pressure on natural resources worldwide, often leading to environmental degradation that, in turn, affect water, food, and energy security. The recognition of the complex interlinkages between multiple sectors has led to the creation of various holistic approaches to environmental decision making such as Integrated Natural Resources Management (INRM), Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), Virtual Water (VW), Water Footprint (WF) and lately the Food-EnergyEnvironment-Water nexus (WE2F). All these approaches aim to increase resource use efficiency and promote sustainability by increasing the cooperation between traditionally disjoint sectors, and mainly differ by the number and relative weights of the sectors included in their framework. They also suffer from the same face and the same barriers for implementation, some of which may never be fully overcome. The paper discusses the benefits of adopti...
Article presents Slovenian Muslims through anthropological evaluation of statistics about migrati... more Article presents Slovenian Muslims through anthropological evaluation of statistics about migration of Muslims to Slovenia in the period of Yugoslavia and after its disintegration (economic migrations in the period of SFRY, refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, non-aligned movement and migrations of students from Near-Eastern and African states), and through evaluation of statistics of the last population census in 2002. The analysis of the latter is concentrated on data about the number of Muslims, their regional dispersal and expressed affiliations. Statistical presence of Muslims in Slovenia is supported with description of their efforts to preserve Muslim identity from the initial period of settlement in Slovenia. A special focus is on analysis of institutionalisation of those efforts. Anthropological evaluation of the part of Slovenian legislation that regulates the field of religion and some Islamic practices is presented. The analysis shows that Slovenian legislati...
... Kot navaja Ahmed Paić (prim. ... delovne zakonodaje za begunce, saj jim je bilo dovoljeno op... more ... Kot navaja Ahmed Paić (prim. ... delovne zakonodaje za begunce, saj jim je bilo dovoljeno opra-vljati začasna in občasna dela, vendar le 60 dni na leto (8 ur na teden), kar seveda ni 10 Na ideoloko razsenost migracij znotraj Jugoslavije me je prijazno opozorila Irena umi. ...
... Kot navaja Ahmed Paić (prim. ... delovne zakonodaje za begunce, saj jim je bilo dovoljeno op... more ... Kot navaja Ahmed Paić (prim. ... delovne zakonodaje za begunce, saj jim je bilo dovoljeno opra-vljati začasna in občasna dela, vendar le 60 dni na leto (8 ur na teden), kar seveda ni 10 Na ideoloko razsenost migracij znotraj Jugoslavije me je prijazno opozorila Irena umi. ...
Agriculture is a significant cause of climate change, directly contributing an approximate 14 % o... more Agriculture is a significant cause of climate change, directly contributing an approximate 14 % of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and indirectly another 17 % through land use change (mainly deforestation). Although climate smart agriculture aims at improving food security, adaptation and mitigation, it does not imply that every recommended practice should necessarily be a ‘triple win’. Especially in developing countries, mitigation should be a co-benefit, while food security and adaptation are main priorities. Thus, climate-smartness underlines the importance of potential trade-offs between agricultural production and environmental impacts. Integrated ex-ante impact assessment can help policy and development decision makers in targeting and upscaling interventions and investments. This study presents results from a rapid ex-ante assessment of the climatesmartness of the technologies supported under the BMZ-GIZ programme on ‘Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food ...
This article focuses on mobile people who are largely overlooked in the contemporary studies of m... more This article focuses on mobile people who are largely overlooked in the contemporary studies of migration and mobility. Today, a rather limited but constantly growing number of people from Global North and Global South are wandering along transnational trajectories, without extended settlement anywhere in particular. They remain mobile because of inability to make the living they hoped for in the place of their origin, or because of being dissatisfied with the values or way of living in home society. Based on our fieldworks among Western liveaboards in the Mediterranean, new European nomads who engage in a mobile life between Europe and Africa, and popular class (sha’bi)1 Moroccan men in the transnational space between Morocco and Spain, we demonstrate the central characteristic of these lifestyles that we prefer to conceptualise as “marginal mobilities”: they are highly mobile, not entirely forced nor voluntary lifestyles, which occur along loosely defined travel trajectories; they...
The article is based on the detailed fieldwork that I conducted between 2003 and 2006 in Jesenice... more The article is based on the detailed fieldwork that I conducted between 2003 and 2006 in Jesenice. It is exploring the practices of covering among Slovenian Muslim women, specifically Bosniaks. It describes concrete practices of covering, analyses Koran ayat and hadith, religious foundations for covering, presents the most widespread interpretations by Islamic intellectuals and researchers, and lastly turns attention to Bosniak interpretations of primary Islamic sources and their concrete implementation in practice. Interpretations of Koran ayat and hadith in which the covering is justified, are various and are in different environments manifested through very different material shapes and practices. Different understandings of the practice of covering are influenced by factors such as individual's interpretations of Islam, education, personality and environment in which those interpretations take place, and is more important than Islamic sources, i.e the text. The same is relev...
The ever-increasing demand for water, food, and energy is putting unsustainable pressure on natur... more The ever-increasing demand for water, food, and energy is putting unsustainable pressure on natural resources worldwide, often leading to environmental degradation that, in turn, affect water, food, and energy security. The recognition of the complex interlinkages between multiple sectors has led to the creation of various holistic approaches to environmental decision making such as Integrated Natural Resources Management (INRM), Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), Virtual Water (VW), Water Footprint (WF) and lately the Food-EnergyEnvironment-Water nexus (WE2F). All these approaches aim to increase resource use efficiency and promote sustainability by increasing the cooperation between traditionally disjoint sectors, and mainly differ by the number and relative weights of the sectors included in their framework. They also suffer from the same face and the same barriers for implementation, some of which may never be fully overcome. The paper discusses the benefits of adopti...
Article presents Slovenian Muslims through anthropological evaluation of statistics about migrati... more Article presents Slovenian Muslims through anthropological evaluation of statistics about migration of Muslims to Slovenia in the period of Yugoslavia and after its disintegration (economic migrations in the period of SFRY, refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, non-aligned movement and migrations of students from Near-Eastern and African states), and through evaluation of statistics of the last population census in 2002. The analysis of the latter is concentrated on data about the number of Muslims, their regional dispersal and expressed affiliations. Statistical presence of Muslims in Slovenia is supported with description of their efforts to preserve Muslim identity from the initial period of settlement in Slovenia. A special focus is on analysis of institutionalisation of those efforts. Anthropological evaluation of the part of Slovenian legislation that regulates the field of religion and some Islamic practices is presented. The analysis shows that Slovenian legislati...
... Kot navaja Ahmed Paić (prim. ... delovne zakonodaje za begunce, saj jim je bilo dovoljeno op... more ... Kot navaja Ahmed Paić (prim. ... delovne zakonodaje za begunce, saj jim je bilo dovoljeno opra-vljati začasna in občasna dela, vendar le 60 dni na leto (8 ur na teden), kar seveda ni 10 Na ideoloko razsenost migracij znotraj Jugoslavije me je prijazno opozorila Irena umi. ...
... Kot navaja Ahmed Paić (prim. ... delovne zakonodaje za begunce, saj jim je bilo dovoljeno op... more ... Kot navaja Ahmed Paić (prim. ... delovne zakonodaje za begunce, saj jim je bilo dovoljeno opra-vljati začasna in občasna dela, vendar le 60 dni na leto (8 ur na teden), kar seveda ni 10 Na ideoloko razsenost migracij znotraj Jugoslavije me je prijazno opozorila Irena umi. ...
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