Rural poverty and livelihoods
- Successful community development in post-conflict Nepal
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A rural development project in Nepal provides insights into the feasibility of poverty reduction activities in conflict-affected areas. Designed in a participatory way, activities include irrigation, hydropower and school building in addition to micro-enterprise and institutional development. The project was cost-effective, utilised local skills and resources, and benefits were shared equitably among the target communities.
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- 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 , 2012)
- 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 i...
- 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)
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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....
- 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 liv...
- 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...
- 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 surv...
- 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 respon...
- 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...
- Improving employment prospects for the young in the MENA region
- ( International Fund for Agricultural Development , 2011)
- The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region presents the largest cohort of youth after sub-Saharan Africa, with young people making up 20 per cent of the total population in NENA. Ths paper, pr...
- Engineers respond to population increases with a set of Engineering Development Goals
- ( T. Fox (ed) / Institution of Mechanical Engineers , 2011)
- Energy, food, water, urbanisation and finance are areas significantly affected by the effects of population growth. How can the engineering profession respond to key challenges in order to ensure the ...
- Total energy access - a minimum standard of access to energy for all
- ( S. Hunt;A. Scott;L. Bates;D. Corbyn / Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group] , 2010)
- One and a half billion of the world’s people have no access to electricity at all, and three billion people rely on traditional biomass and coal for cooking. This report argues that energy pover...
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