- 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 ...
- Latin America’s rural family farmers: evolutions in access to markets and rural income structure
- G. Escobar; M. Glave / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Over time, the rural reality in Latin America has changed, with family farmers now more integrated in markets and significantly less dependent on agriculture for income. What does this mean for family farmers today? In orde...
- Urbanization and climate change impacts on future urban flooding in Can Tho city, Vietnam
- H. T. L. Huong; A. Pathirana / Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2013
- Urban development increases flood risk in cities due to local changes in hydrological and hydrometeorological conditions that increase flood hazard, as well as to urban concentrations that increase the vulnerability. The large-scale, ...
- Farmers’ perceptions and adaptations to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa: a synthesis of empirical studies and implications for public policy in African agriculture
- J. S. Juana; Z. Kahaka; F. N. Okurut / Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013
- Climate change has the potential of undermining sustainable development efforts in Africa, if steps are not taken to respond to its adverse consequences. This study reviews existing and available literature on farmers’ perceptio...
- Bringing people back into protected forests in developing countries: insights from co-management in Malawi
- L. Zulu / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
- Focusing on Malawi, this study examines struggles to bring people back into protected forests to enhance sustainable forest management and livelihoods using insights emerging from a co-management project in Malawi. It uses mixed socia...
- Case studies exploring climate change impacts on indigenous peoples in Namibia and their adaptation strategies
- U. Dieckmann; W. Odendaal; J. Tarr; A. Schreij / Legal Assistance Centre, 2013
- Through two participatory case studies, this paper examines the impact of climate change on the indigenous peoples of Namibia. The objectives of the case studies are three-fold: to document how the indigenous peoples are affected by c...
- Envisioning the future and learning from the past: adapting to a changing environment in northern Mali
- M. Brockhaus; H. Djoudi (ed); B. Locatelli (ed) / Elsevier, 2013
- In West Africa, rural livelihoods that dependon natural resources develop coping and adapting strategies to face climate variability or change, and economic or political changes. The former Lake Faguibine in northern Mali has experien...
- Final Impact Evaluation of the Saving for Change Program in Mali, 2009-2012
- 2013
- Saving for Change (SfC) is a community savings group programme designed and implemented by Oxfam America, Freedom from Hunger, and the Strømme Foundation. SfC operates in 13 countries in West Africa, Latin America and Asia. ...
- How best to measure pension adequacy
- A.G. Grech / Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and R, 2013
- Though the main benchmark used to assess pension reforms continues to be the expected resulting fall in future government spending, the impact of policy changes on pension adequacy is increasingly coming to the for...
- Making Sense of Gender, Climate Change and Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
- C. Okali; L.O. Naess / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
- Full title: Making Sense of Gender, Climate Change and Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: Creating Gender-Responsive Climate Adaptation Policy Christine Okali and Lars Otto Naess May 2013 Attention to gender and cli...
- Learning the Lessons? Assessing the response to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel to build resilience for the future
- Oxfam, 2013
- In 2012, the Sahel region of West and Central Africa was once again hit by a severe food crisis, affecting over 18 million people at its peak. At the start of 2012, when the crisis began to unfold, many governments, donors and aid age...
- 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...
