Rural poverty
- 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...
- Expanding microfinance in Latin America’s rural areas
- M. Jaramillo / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Rural finance has the potential to help poor people out of poverty, and Latin America has met that challenge in some unique ways.This Brief by discusses impacts of microfinance’s in rural areas, presenting evidence on rural pove...
- 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...
- 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. ...
- Papua New Guinea has strong economic growth yet marginalised remote areas
- M.E. Khan; Y. Niimi; M.R.M. Cham / Asian Development Bank, 2012
- Papua New Guinea (PNG) has enjoyed several years of strong economic growth, driven largely by high commodity prices and supported by structural reforms and some sound macroeconomic policies. However, the growing opportunities and weal...
- Impacts of skills training program in rural Bhutan
- N. Chun; M. Watanabe / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- Income growth in rural Bhutan is a considerable challenge to further poverty reduction and economic development. Using a survey of rural Bhutanese households, this paper investigates the impacts of a vocational skills training program...
- Rural households in a changing climate
- J. E. Baez; D. Kronick; A. D. Mason / World Bank, 2013
- This World Bank policy research working paper investigates household-level strategies for adapting to climate change in rural settings, looking particularly at the adaptive capacity of poor rural households – a subject the autho...
- Old age support in rural China
- F. Cai; J. Giles; P.O. Keefe / World Bank, 2012
- Although average incomes in China have risen dramatically since the 1980s, concerns are increasing that the rural elderly have not benefited from growth to the same extent as younger people and the urban elderly. This book explores th...
- Alternative investment strategies for increasing resilience in the Horn of Africa
- D. Headey; A. S. Taffesse; L. You / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
- This discussion paper seeks to explore alternative investment options with the aim of enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa. Climate change, conflict, drought and increasing populations are leading many to pessimistic conclusions...
- How can expansion of farmland be sustainable
- K. Deininger; D. Byerlee; J. Lindsay / World Bank, 2011
- This paper analyses issues that affect the role of agriculture as a source of economic development, rural livelihoods and environmental services. Using experiences of land expansion in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Eu...
- 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...
- 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
