Rural poverty
- States must ensure secure rural land tenure to facilitate rural development
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2002
- The purpose of this guide is to provide support to those who are assessing and designing appropriate responses to food insecurity and rural development situations. This guide aims to show where and why land tenure is an important issu...
- Trends in rural-urban labour migration in sub-Saharan Africa
- A. Tostensen / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004
- This CMI working paper provides an overview of rural-urban linkages in sub-Saharan Africa outlining the major strands of contemporary academic debates on this issue. There author identifies two interrelated debates for discussion. The...
- How are rural livelihoods affected by linkages into the international economy?
- C. Wilson / Overseas Development Institute, 2004
- This paper examines the factors impacting on livelihoods in rural India. In particular it investigates the effect of structural changes associated with increased linkages into the external economy, on villagers' levels of poverty. ...
- The gap between rural and urban living standards in South Africa
- D.C Stifel; D.E Sahn / Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2003
- This paper examines the relative importance of rural versus urban areas in terms of monetary poverty and seven other related living standards indicators. The authors present levels of urban-rural differences for several African countr...
- Effectiveness of IFPRI's Rural Finance Policies for Food Security programme
- J. Alwang; V. Puhazhendhi / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- This study examines the impact of IFPRI's multi-country research project on Rural Finance Policies for Food Security for the Poor (IRFPP) within four countries (Nepal, Bangladesh, Ghana and Malawi). It also examines IRFPP's contributi...
- Attitudes of bank staff and the provision of financial services to the rural poor
- Howard Jones / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- Literature on how to make banking services more pro-poor has paid little attention to the attitudes of those who work in banks. How do rural bank managers judge their work environment and their poor clients? Could changes in bank recr...
- Toolkit for gender-sensitive approaches in sustainable development projects and programmes
- C.S. Ott / Centre for Development and Environment, Berne, 2002
- This toolkit provides a framework for main-streaming gender in rural development activities. It addresses the lack of conceptual and practical tools in the area of sustainable land management. Its modular design allows for indi...
- 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 ...
- Rural finance for growth and poverty alleviation in Pakistan
- Saeed Qureshi; Ijaz Nabi; Rashid Faruqee / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- To promote agricultural --- and hence economic --- growth, Pakistan must make more credit available to agricultural smallholders, the rural non farm sector, and women. Subsidizing interest rates is not the way to help marginal borrowe...
- 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...
- Rural finance for growth and poverty alleviation in Pakistan
- Saeed Qureshi; Ijaz Nabi; Rashid Faruqee / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- To promote agricultural --- and hence economic --- growth, Pakistan must make more credit available to agricultural smallholders, the rural non farm sector, and women. Subsidizing interest rates is not the way to help marginal borrowe...
- 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...
- How can forests contribute to local incomes?
- M. Arnold; I. Townson / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
- Large numbers of rural households in Africa continue to generate some of their income from forest product activities. However, much of this involvement is in labour intensive low return activities that help to provide the poor with an...
- Malawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture
- M. Whiteside; S. Carr / Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997
- Malawi’ s smallholder agriculture is facing a crisis, particularly in the more populated south. There is an insidious combination of land shortage, continuous cultivation of maize, declining soil fertility, low yields, deforestat...
- Rural finance and poverty alleviation
- M. Zeller; M. Sharma / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998
- Presents information on the credit constraints that poor rural households face, derived from detailed rural household surveys conducted by IFPRI and its collaborators in nine countries of Asia and Africa (Bang ladesh, Cameroon, China,...
- Land access, off - farm income and capital access in relation to the reduction of rural poverty
- Jolyne Melmed - Sanjak; Susana Lastarria - Cornhiel / Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 1998
- The current framework of economic growth and development includes a general trend towards the privatization of land rights and a collapse of collective structures in agriculture as well as a move towards reliance on land markets as th...
- Helping to promote sustainable credit
- A. Goodland / Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2000
- Increasing access to financial services still has a role in combating rural poverty. In the past, the narrow focus on subsidized credit for agricultural production proved unsustainable. However, recent experiences have been more posit...
- 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
