Timelines: how rural livelihoods are evolving in Nepal and India

How do the ways in which rural people make a living change over time? Ongoing studies by University of East Anglia researchers along with partner organisations in India and Nepal, are tracking the different ways in which rural people have changed their livelihoods over the past twenty years ('livelihood trajectories'). These have changed direction in the wake of major social, environmental and economic changes. Data were collected on livelihoods in two villages in India and two in Nepal in the mid- 1970s. Current research in the same locations throws light on how the welfare of men, women, children and the elderly has since evolved