Livelihoods and agriculture
Seventy five per cent of the poor live in rural areas, dependent on agriculture and natural resources for their livelihoods. Designing an appropriate policy environment for agriculture requires in-depth knowledge of the livelihood strategies of rural households and consideration of ways to protect and promote them. More…
Latest Documents
- 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...
- Smallholder agriculture’s contribution to better nutrition
- S. Wiggins; S. Keats / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Commissioned by the UK Hunger Alliance for the June 2013 'Hunger Summit' this report asks "How can smallholder agriculture contribute to improving food security and reducing under-nutrition?" Potentially, smallholder agricultur...
- Non-farm sector is the most important area for rural employment – evidence from India
- A.D. Foster / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- Despite increasing urbanisation in Asia countries, a large fraction of Asia’s poor remain in rural areas. This paper examines the potential for sector-specific productivity growth, human capital, credit markets, and infrastructu...
- Report outlining a comprehensive climate risk management study of a wetland in Niger
- J. Dekens; Y. Nazoumou; A. N. Zamudio-Trigo / United Nations Development Programme, 2013
- The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) recently implemented climate risk management studies in seven countries. This report, commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme’s Bureau for Crisis Pr...
- Chronic poverty in the Southwest coastal belt of Bangladesh
- Solidarités International, 2013
- Where the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh was once a prosperous agricultural hub, today it is an area ravaged by salinity, natural disasters, poverty and an inability to cope with recurrent shocks. This paper pr...
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