- Changing economic and social patterns in African rural settlements
- D. Bryceson / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000
- This paper synthesises the findings and main policy implications of new empirical studies on changing rural livelihoods from the De-Agrarianisation and Rural Employment (DARE) research programme at the African Studies Centre, Universi...
- Pastoral groups in East Africa need to engage in policy debate
- C. Hesse; M. Ochieng Odhiambo / Drylands Programme, IIED, 2001
- This concept note explores initiatives aiming at supporting pastoral civil society in East Africa. The goals of the initiative include: create conditions such that pastoral groups can play a more effective and vi...
- Toolkit: analysing livelihoods at the local level
- Socioeconomic And Gender Analysis Programme, FAO, 1998
- The Field Level Handbookis written for field workers: extensionists, government and non-government field workers, private- and public-sector development consultants, community organisers and leaders of local groups and institutions.Ha...
- Sustaining livelihoods on Mongolia's pastoral commons
- R. Mearns; E. Dulamdary / International Association for the Study of Common Property, 2000
- Under the socialist regime that prevailed until the start of the 1990s, Mongolia made great progress in improving human development indicators, and poverty was virtually unknown. Through innovative service delivery mechanisms to nomad...
- Livelihoods and security issues in Malawi
- M. Whiteside / Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1999
- Ganyu is widely used in Malawi to describe a range of short term rural labour relationships, the most common of which is piecework weeding or ridging on the fields of other smallholders or on agricultural estates. Ganyu is a crucial p...
- Sustainable livelihoods manual for field projects on adaptive strategies
- International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1995
- Manual on project design. Aims to ensure that teams select an appropriate mix of available research methods, particularly those based on participatory methods, so as to link meaningful field studies withpolicy research and thus achiev...
- Factors which encourage and affect non-farm based employment
- A. Gordon / Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2000
- Paper suggests that poor rural people seek livelihoods in the non-farm sector: (a) to complement seasonal agricultural incomes; (b) to supplement inadequate (or absent) agricultural incomes; and (c) to take advantage of opportunities ...
- Policymakers must recognise that urban poverty exists and that it is increasing
- D. Maxwell; L. Levin; M. Armar-Klemesu / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000
- Substantial abstract of a report studying the impact of urban life on the livelihoods, food security, and nutritional status of the poor in Accra. Examines food consumption and employment and income, as well as hygiene practices, sani...
- Participatory assessment in community forestry
- K. Schoonmaker Freudenberger / Forests, Trees and People Programme and Network, FAO - SLU, 1994
- Manual offers guidelines for using rapid appraisal methods to gather information on tenure and natural resource management. It translates the concepts elaborated in Community Forestry Note 5, rapid appraisal of tree and land tenure. T...
- Can sustainable livelihood approaches strengthen and add value to national level policy on poverty reduction?
- N. Thin; M. Underwood; J. Gilling / Eldis Document Store, 2001
- DfID paper that asks: how far are social policy and livelihood issues/ approaches currently incorporated in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)? Can sustainable livelihood (SL) approaches strengthen and add value to national lev...
- Key sheets for sustainable livelihoods
- Department for International Development, UK, 1998
- Aim of this series to provide a reference point for DFID decision-making about various aspects of service delivery and resource management. The series will also analyse different aspects of the policy process and options for donor int...
- The contributions of ethical trade to sustainable livelihoods
- D. Crucefix / Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998
- Examines the contribution ethical trade initiatives can make towards the goal of sustainable rural livelihoods. The experience of organic agriculture projects in developing and in-transition countries is the particular focus of this r...
- Financial sustainability, targeting the poorest and income impact: are there trade off for micro-finance institutions? (CGAP)
- Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1999
- Political capital in the Sustainable Livelihoods approach
- P. Baumann / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- Looks at the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach as an analytical framework. The potential of SL was examined by applying the framework for analysis in a research project on decentralised natural resource management in India.The SL ...
- When and where to intervene
- Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2000
- This article looks at ways of using food aid as an intervention to mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS. Impacts include: people infected with HIV/AIDS are frequently unable to work for increasingly long periods of time, u...
- Implications for the design and targetting of more formal safety nets
- S. Devereux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
- Examines role of informal safety nets in providing protection against livelihood shocks. Summarises state of knowledge on informal safety nets by reviewing available literature and also reporting on household survey carried out...
- Sustainable livelihoods approaches and policy on poverty reduction
- A. Norton; M. Foster / Overseas Development Institute, 2001
- This paper looks at the question of whether sustainable livelihood approaches have value at the level of overall policy on poverty reduction, and specifically addresses to what extent the approach might be used in support of poverty r...
- To what extent can aquaculture help poverty reduction?
- P. Edwards / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000
- Aquaculture is often viewed narrowly as intensive culture of salmon and shrimp to provide high value products for luxury markets and is often associated with environmental degradation. The promotion of aquaculture for rural developmen...
- Health and education subsidies in Africa favour the better off
- F. Castro-Leal; J. Dayton; L. Demery; K. Mehra / World Bank Research Observer, 1999
- This paper, published by the World Bank Research Observer (WBRO), examines the effectiveness of public social spending on education and health care in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa, and Tanza...
- Safety net arrangements for elderly Africans
- S. Devereux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001
- Non-contributory state pensions were introduced in South Africa in 1928. Eligibility was extended to White Namibians in the 1940s but to African Namibians only in 1973. Initially motivated by a complex combination of welfarist ...
- 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...
