Rural poverty
- Technical, financial and organisational issues to consider when using hybrid mini-grids for rural electrification
- S. Rolland; C. Guerrero / USA Agency for International Development, 2011
- There are currently around 1.5 billion people in the world without access to electricity. This report summarises lessons learned from hybrid mini-grid projects implemented by members of the Alliance for Rural Development (ARE) and pro...
- A report focusing on food security and human development in Africa
- P. Conceição (ed); R. Fuentes-Nieva (ed); S. Levine (ed) / United Nations Development Programme, 2012
- Due to misguided policies, weak institutions and failing markets, sub-Saharan Africa has millions of hungry and malnourished people. This first Africa Human Development Report 2012 seeks to look beyond direct causes of food insecurity...
- Adaptational farming practices can halve the increase in hunger resulting from climate change
- M. Parry; A. Evans; M. W. Rosegrant / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
- This report reviews current knowledge of the effects of climate change on hunger and provides an overview of actions that can be taken to address the challenge. The report argues that unless climate change is mitigated by...
- Analysing the adaptive capacity of climate change interventions in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique
- A. Ospina; R. Heeks / Centre for Development Informatics, 2011
- A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenges, interventions must, at all stag...
- Social capital helps women in Bangladesh to invest in their own and their children’s nutritional status
- N. Kumar; A.R. Quisumbing / CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2010
- In Bangladesh, rural households headed by women are more likely to be among the poorest. This paper investigates the long–term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different implementation modalities, on men&r...
- Access to financial, physical and social capital assets is a prerequisite to reduce Nigerian rural poverty
- J.O. LAWAL; B.T. OMONONA; O.D. OYINLEYE / AgEcon Search, 2011
- The eradication of poverty in rural Nigeria remains a hard challenge for the country to overcome despite the various poverty eradication programmes implementation at different levels of government. This study examines the effects of f...
- Livelihoods in the rural south divorced from farming and land
- J. Rigg (ed) / University of Durham, 2006
- Livelihoods in the rural South are becoming increasingly separated from farming and land. Non-farm opportunities have expanded and increased the levels of mobility leading to the delocalisation of livelihoods. This requires a reconsid...
- Taking stock of the implications for adaptation policy of livelihoods diversification in Namibia
- A. J. Newsham (ed); D. S. G. Thomas (ed) / Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2009
- The potential implications of climate change have started to receive more attention in Namibia. Water demand in the country is projected to exceed its extraction capacity by 2015, meaning that climate change will adversely affect the ...
- How does the rural non-farm economy contribute to employment and rural income growth?
- S. Haggblade (ed); P. Hazell (ed); T. Reardon (ed) / The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2010
- Non-farm earnings account for 35 to 50 per cent of rural household income across the developing world. Landless and near-landless households everywhere depend heavily on non-farm income for their survival, while agricultural household...
- The future of African rural dwellers: labour force participation outside of rural agriculture
- D. Bryceson (ed) / Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2000
- The last two decades of the 20th century have been a period of change for sub-Saharan African economies. Structural Adjustment Programmes have triggered a huge, unplanned income diversification response in African rural areas making r...
- A report focusing on food security and human development in Africa
- P. Conceição (ed); R. Fuentes-Nieva (ed); S. Levine (ed) / United Nations Development Programme, 2012
- Due to misguided policies, weak institutions and failing markets, sub-Saharan Africa has millions of hungry and malnourished people. This first Africa Human Development Report 2012 seeks to look beyond direct causes of food insecurity...
- Adaptational farming practices can halve the increase in hunger resulting from climate change
- M. Parry; A. Evans; M. W. Rosegrant / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
- This report reviews current knowledge of the effects of climate change on hunger and provides an overview of actions that can be taken to address the challenge. The report argues that unless climate change is mitigated by...
- Analysing the adaptive capacity of climate change interventions in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique
- A. Ospina; R. Heeks / Centre for Development Informatics, 2011
- A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenges, interventions must, at all stag...
- Social capital helps women in Bangladesh to invest in their own and their children’s nutritional status
- N. Kumar; A.R. Quisumbing / CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2010
- In Bangladesh, rural households headed by women are more likely to be among the poorest. This paper investigates the long–term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different implementation modalities, on men&r...
- Access to financial, physical and social capital assets is a prerequisite to reduce Nigerian rural poverty
- J.O. LAWAL; B.T. OMONONA; O.D. OYINLEYE / AgEcon Search, 2011
- The eradication of poverty in rural Nigeria remains a hard challenge for the country to overcome despite the various poverty eradication programmes implementation at different levels of government. This study examines the effects of f...
- Livelihoods in the rural south divorced from farming and land
- J. Rigg (ed) / University of Durham, 2006
- Livelihoods in the rural South are becoming increasingly separated from farming and land. Non-farm opportunities have expanded and increased the levels of mobility leading to the delocalisation of livelihoods. This requires a reconsid...
- Taking stock of the implications for adaptation policy of livelihoods diversification in Namibia
- A. J. Newsham (ed); D. S. G. Thomas (ed) / Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2009
- The potential implications of climate change have started to receive more attention in Namibia. Water demand in the country is projected to exceed its extraction capacity by 2015, meaning that climate change will adversely affect the ...
- How does the rural non-farm economy contribute to employment and rural income growth?
- S. Haggblade (ed); P. Hazell (ed); T. Reardon (ed) / The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2010
- Non-farm earnings account for 35 to 50 per cent of rural household income across the developing world. Landless and near-landless households everywhere depend heavily on non-farm income for their survival, while agricultural household...
- The future of African rural dwellers: labour force participation outside of rural agriculture
- D. Bryceson (ed) / Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2000
- The last two decades of the 20th century have been a period of change for sub-Saharan African economies. Structural Adjustment Programmes have triggered a huge, unplanned income diversification response in African rural areas making r...
- Perspectives on the human rights of the elderly in India
- Agewell Foundation, 2011
- The population of India has approximately tripled during the last 50 years, but the number of elderly Indians has increased more than fourfold. Better medical facilities, care and liberal family planning policies made the elderl...
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- Pro Mujer
- Women's development and microfinance organisation in Latin America
- Andes/Amazon Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) program (ESPA-AA)
- A research project focusing on ecosystems services and poverty in the Andes and Amazon
- Agros International
- US-based international CSO working to combat rural poverty in Central America and Mexico. Agros International is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty for rural families in Central America and Mexico by enabling landless communities to achieve land ownership and economic stability. Having learned that the root causes of poverty extend across communities and are passed down from generation to...
- WWF South Pacific programme
- Promoting environmental sustainibility and socio-economic development in the South Pacific
- CHF (CHF)
- Canadian NGO working to enable poor rural communities to attain sustainable livelihoods
- International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD)
- Network about mobility and transport in rural areas
- Rural Reconstruction Nepal
- Integrated community development programmes in Nepal
