Livelihoods and urban development
By 2050, the urban population is expected to expand by 1.8 billion in Asia and 0.9 billion in Africa. While most livelihoods thinking originally derived from rural contexts, livelihoods approaches can provide insight into issues of urban poverty and of rural-urban linkages. More…
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- 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...
- Total energy access - a minimum standard of access to energy for all
- ( S. Hunt;A. Scott;L. Bates;D. Corbyn / Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group] , 2010)
- One and a half billion of the world’s people have no access to electricity at all, and three billion people rely on traditional biomass and coal for cooking. This report argues that energy pover...
- Survival in an unplanned urban fishing wetland in Tanzania
- ( M. Victor;A. Makalle;N. Ngware / Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania , 2008)
- This report is a case study of Bonde la Mpunga, a wetland in Dar es Salaam which was formerly used for rice growing. It is an area abundant in natural resources with fishing being the main economic ac...
- Opportunities from rainwater harvesting to human well-being
- ( United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2009)
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The aim of this report is to compile a synthesis of experiences that can provide insight into the multiple opportunities rainwater harvesting can have when addressing human well-being, while contin...
- Can urban agriculture generate adequate livelihoods and food security?
- ( M. Redwood (ed) / International Development Research Centre , 2009)
- This report, by researchers working in urban agriculture (UA), examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapi...
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