Livelihoods and agriculture
Seventy five per cent of the poor live in rural areas, dependent on agriculture and natural resources for their livelihoods. Designing an appropriate policy environment for agriculture requires in-depth knowledge of the livelihood strategies of rural households and consideration of ways to protect and promote them. More…
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- Briefing paper presenting lessons learned from working with women smallholders on food security
- R. Tripathi;K. Deering;N. Saracini / 2012
- This briefing paper is the result of a collaboration between nine different agencies, sharing lessons learned from working with women smallholders in order to close the gender gap in agriculture. Desp...
- Outlining threats to water security by climate change in arid and semi-arid regions, and recommendations for adaptive strategies
- 2009
- This perspective document, part of the 16-paper series on water and climate change adaptation, focuses on the impacts and adaptive strategies in arid and semi-arid regions. The series reflect the cent...
- Integrating the previously independent areas of climate change and development studies, and the challenges therein
- S. Huq;H. Reid;L.A. Murray / Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme, IIED, 2006
- Part of the Gatekeeper Series produced by the Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme at IIED, this paper charts the evolution of climate change and development study and shows why the...
- Analysing the adaptive capacity of climate change interventions in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique
- A. Ospina;R. Heeks / Centre for Development Informatics, 2011
- A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenge...
- 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
- 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....
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