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.
- Sustainable livelihoods approaches: past, present and...future?
- How are Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLAs) relevant to current and future development challenges? What has been learnt from the experience of using SLAs to date? This Sustainable Livelihoods Highlights Brief looks at a series of six seminars, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council from 2008-11, which brought together practitioners, policymakers and researchers to reflect on the development and adaptation of SLAs, and debate their value in addressing current development challenges.
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
- Access to financial, physical and social capital assets is a prerequisite to reduce Nigerian rural poverty
- ( J.O. LAWAL;B.T. OMONONA;O.D. OYINLEYE / AgEcon Search , 2011)
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The eradication of poverty in rural Nigeria remains a hard challenge for the country to overcome despite the various poverty eradication programmes implementation at different levels of government....
- Malawian farmers' willingness to allocate funds for input purchase at harvest time
- ( S.T. Holden (ed);R. Lunduka (ed) / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford , 2011)
- Malawi has implemented a large-scale agricultural input subsidy program since 2005 after a period with severe food shortages and the program has contributed to increased food availability, higher real...
- Is urban agriculture paying dividends in the fight against hunger in Malawi?
- ( D. Mkwambisi;E. Fraser;A. Dougill / Leeds University , 2007)
- Urban agriculture (UA) can reduce poverty but there is need for more precise analyses on how it contributes to food security. A study in Malawi,revealed two predominant types of urban farmers: ...
- Localised solutions are essential in global land markets
- ( T.W. Hertel / AgEcon Search , 2010)
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The number of people which the world must feed is expected to increase by 50% during the first half of this century, but will the world’s agricultural resource base be up to the task of meeti...
- How can sustainable livelihoods approaches be more successfully applied to future development challenges?
- ( S. Turrall (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS , 2011)
- How are Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLAs) relevant to current and future development challenges? What has been learnt from the experience of using SLAs to date? This Sustainable Livelihoods Hi...
