- Research programme on applying sustainable livelihoods methods
- Bradford Centre for International Development, UK, 2001
- The adoption of the SLA approach presents challenges to development interventions including: the future of projects; the project cycle; the monitoring and evaluation of interventions; and the development of sector wide approaches and ...
- Planning for urban food security
- P. Bonnard / Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 2000
- This paper aims to sensitize FEWS field staff to urban food security issues and to build their capacity to guide, design, and implement urban vulnerability assessments (VAs) and food security monitoring. There is a growing recognition...
- Forestry and food security from a variety of perspectives
- Unasylva, FAO, 2000
- Unasylva issue looking at different perpectives on issues of physical and economic access to food for forest dependent peoples. Articles are structured as a series of case studies from around the world to analyse the linkages between ...
- Strengthening nomadic pastoral livelihoods in Wajir: a manual
- Oxfam, 2000
- This manual was written in order to capture the wide body of knowledge and experience on development of Pastoral Associations which has emerged in Wajir (Kenya). This manual aims to: serve as a comprehensive ...
- Does the creation of labour reserve economies in southern Africa act as a disincentive for land-based activities?
- S. Shackleton; C. Shackleton; B. Cousins / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000
- This paper reviews recent valuation studies in the communal lands of several southern African countries. The significance of common pool resources and a range of agricultural goods and services for livelihood security and household in...
- How can the Sustainable Livelihoods approach improve water projects?
- A. Nicol / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- This paper has three elements. Firstly, the study investigates the pre-eminence of a health-based view within thewater and sanitation sector. Secondly, the paper also analyses water in the context of poor households. In doing so it us...
- How sustainable livelihoods helps understand access by the poor to assets and entitlements
- P. Baumann; S. Sinha / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2001
- This paper examines how far Sustainable Livelihoods analysis helps in understanding the complex power relations influencing the rightful access by the poor to assets and entitlements. Paper asserts that these power relations a...
- Are the sustainable livelihoods and rights-based approaches consistent with the new architecture of aid?
- J. Farrington / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2001
- The aim of this paper is to question whether the principles and practice of the sustainable livelihoods (SL) and rights-based (RB) approaches are consistent with the new architecture of aid, and, if so, whether and how complementariti...
- Can social safety nets contribute to poverty reduction in Africa?
- Stephen Devereux / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
- What effect do social safety nets have on poverty – on food security, trade, gender, and social relations? A recent Institute of Development Studies report suggests that the impact is far more wide-ranging and profound than previ...
- Drought coping strategies: migration and return
- R. Haug / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of L, 2000
- This paper focuses on the Hawaweer, a nomadic pastoralist group inhabiting the Northern part of Sudan. The Hawaweer were forced to migrate in the mid-eighties because of drought and hunger. The Hawaweer were selected for study mainly ...
- The affects of sustainable livelihoods approaches on Natural Resource Management
- C. Ashley / Overseas Development Institute, 1999
- Reviews different uses of livelihoods analysis in four projects/programmes, and identifies lessons learnt on the application of a livelihoods approach. All four examples explored how rural livelihoods affect and are affected by natura...
- Coping with livelihood risk
- S. Dercon / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001
- This paper discusses the different strategies households use to cope with their livelihood risk. It focuses on income-based strategies, on assets as self-insurance and on informal insurance arrangements. It states that households are ...
- Targeting poverty by geography: the case of the West Bank and Gaza
- C. Astrup; S. Dessus / Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
- This paper constructs a detailed poverty map of the West Bank and Gaza, by estimating the incidence of poverty in 132 distinct localities. It derives the estimates by combining econometric analysis of the Palestinian Households Survey...
- Geographic Targeting: Its Effects on Poverty Reduction
- Poverty Lines, World Bank, 1998
- How effective is geographic targeting as a means for channeling public resources to the poor? Draws on several Latin American case studies
- Sustainable livelihoods approaches and methods for assessing the impact of wildlife projects in East Africa
- C. Ashley; K. Hussein / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- Describes how key concepts of the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach were incorporated into methods for assessing the impact of wildlife projects in East Africa. It shows that the SL approach can be applied not only to planning new...
- Recommendations for institional for Sustainable Livelihoods: what works in South Africa
- Khanya - Managing Rural Change CC, 2000
- This article focuses on critical issues in managing change for SRLs (Sustainable Rural Livelihoods). Chief features of SRL approach: It starts with (poor) people as the focus, and so puts clients at the centre ...
- Towards a Technology Strategy for Sustainable Livelihoods
- G. Pauli; O. Bjerregaard / Sustainable Livelihoods Programme, UNDP, 1999
- Outlines means for appropriate technology promotion within a sustainable livlihoods planning framework. The objective of a technology strategy for sustainble livelihoods must be the development and adoption of technologies which ...
- Livelihoods diversification in rural development
- F. Ellis / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999
- Examines livelihood diversification as a survival strategy of rural households in developing countries. Although still of central importance, farming on its own is increasingly unable to provide a sufficient means of survival in rural...
- Extension needs to concentrate on reducing vulnerablility
- I. Cristoplos; J. Farrington; A.D. Kidd / Department for International Development, UK, 2001
- This inception paper reviews recent trends in poverty, vulnerability and extension, and the policy context in which extension is located. The paper concludes that: poverty is multi-faceted, but as the Sustainabl...
- Biggest benefit of fair trade is increased income and access to funds
- M Blowfield; S Gallet / Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2001
- Uses Volta River Estates Ltd. (Ghana) as a case study into ethical trade and sustainable rural livelihoods. This organisation is a Fairtrade banana exporter. The VREL example suggests that plantations can increase livelihood op...
- Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels (CTA)
- On 4th April, 2012, CTA organised a Briefing on “ACP Small island economies: from vulnerabilities to opportunities” with the European Commission (DG DEVCO), the ACP Secretariat, Concord and various media partners. The Brussels briefings website hosts the video documentation of all the speeches given at the conference, as well as the presentations of the speakers, the programme of...
- Climate Focus
- An advisory company committed to the development of policies and projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development (AJARD)
- Open access journal focusing on agriculture and rural development
- Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences (RJOAS)
- An interdisciplinary open access journal of agriculture and socio-economic studies
- Pacific Institute of Public Policy (PiPP)
- The Pacific Institute of Public Policy (PiPP) is an independent think tank serving the Pacific islands community. PiPP engages and connects principal stakeholders, promoting fraternity between the Pacific island countries and regional neighbours such as New Zealand and Australia.
- Integrated Development Society
- Integrated Development Society (IDS) Nepal is a non-for-profit, non-government development organisation working in the field of sustainable development, policy research and knowledge mobilisation.
- Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC)
- The Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC) is a six year global research programme exploring livelihoods, basic services and social protection in conflict-affected situations. Funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), SLRC was established in 2011 with the aim of strengthening the evidence base and informing policy and practice around livelihoods and servic...
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- International Growth Centre (IGC)
- The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. Based at LSE and in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC is initiated and funded by DFID. The IGC has 13 active country programmes in 12 countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India (Bihar state and Central), Mozambiqu...
- Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP)
- The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) works with extreme poor households living on island chars in north western Bangladesh, and aims to improve the livelihoods of over one million people. The CLP is jointly funded by UKaid through the Department for International Development and the Australian Government (AusAID), sponsored by the Rural Development and Co-operatives Division of the Government of...
