Livelihoods Connect
Livelihoods Connect aims to provide researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners with up-to-date, diverse and credible information on the application of livelihoods approaches to development, research, policy and practice.
These information resources cover a range of frameworks, principles and methodologies covered by the term ‘livelihoods approaches’ – principally multi-disciplinary, multi-level, people-centred, asset-based approaches to development.
- Integrating approaches: Sustainable livelihoods, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
- In December 2009, Practical Action hosted a seminar bringing together academics, practitioners and policy-makers to explore how thinking on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction can be integrated with sustainable livelihoods approaches for more effective and sustained poverty reduction. This briefing paper provides an overview of the seminar with summaries of the presentations made.
What are livelihoods approaches?
This section provides an introduction to livelihoods approaches, including: a short history of their evolution; sections unpacking elements and principles; introductory training and learning materials, including DFID SLA guidance sheets and a distance learning guide.
Application of livelihoods approaches
The themes section highlights how livelihoods approaches have been applied to a range of development issues from Agriculture to Water & Sanitation. Each theme includes an introduction, links to recommended reading and a regularly updated list of the latest online resources for that theme.
Latest Additions
- Toolkit for adaptation of livelihoods to normal and emergency climate change situations
- ( United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , 2009)
- The existing poverty and the likelihood of severe effects of climate change in developing countries highlights the critical importance of adaptation to its impacts. Without substantial intervention, t...
- What can sustainable livelihoods approaches and pro-poor market approaches learn from each other?
- ( S. Johnson (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS , 2009)
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The third Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) seminar was held at the University of Bath, in the UK, in July 2009. Hosted by the Livelihoods Network, the seminar series discusses the continued relevance o...
- Challenges to insular income systems in the Nordic Countries
- ( M. Dahlström / NORDREGIO , 2006)
- Balancing rural livelihoods, urban consumption and conservation key to controlling bushmeat hunting
- ( Noelle Francesca Kumpel / Imperial College, University of London , 2006)
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Bushmeat hunting is thought to be becoming increasingly unsustainable in west and central Africa, but true assessment of sustainability and consequently appropriate management, is constrained by po...
- Policy implications for NTFP commercialization: research from Mexico and Bolivia
- ( E. Marshall (ed);K. Schreckenberg (ed);A.C Newton (ed) / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2006)
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Commercialization of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) has been widely promoted as an approach to rural development in tropical forest areas. However, donor investments in the development of NTFP ...
