- 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...
- Grain Market Research Project, Ethiopia
- Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
- Series of full text papers on grain marketing and food security in Ethiopia. Papers include: Improving information and Performance in Grain Marketing. Tschirley D., Diskin P., Molla D. and Clay D. (September 1995). ...
- Can Robust Pro-Female Policies be Identified When the True Model of the Household is Unknown?
- J. Mackinnon / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
- This paper seeks to identify parameter changes which are robust in the sense that they benefit women relative to men in a wide range of household models. The models considered are unitary, Nash- bargaining and non-cooperative with and...
- Social Welfare Systems in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis Including Private Welfare
- D. Jacobs / Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998
- Overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as income distribution aspects, based on both aggregate data a...
- How to achieve better livelihoods for poor people?
- Khanya - Managing Rural Change CC, 2000
- Participants were grouped to relate the findings to clusters approximating to their work situations. Three were identified: Water issues: Capacity-building initiatives should respond to the overallv restructur...
- A livelihoods review of projects in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, India
- C. Turton / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- Reviews the design of two new DFID projects in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, India. The projects aim to contribute to the Government of India’s efforts to eliminate poverty through support to its watershed development programme. Th...
- Why do households choose to invest in soil and water conservation?
- C. Boyd; C. Turton / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- Discusses the role of soil and water conservation (SWC) practices in sustainable livelihoods and presents preliminary findings from case studies conducted in Tanzania and Uganda. Describes the conditions under which households...
- 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...
