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  Effects of market reform on access to food by low-income households : evidence from four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  This report highlights conclusions from the study which have broader implications for targeting vulnerable groups. There appear to be major opportunities to promote household food security through the use of self-targeting.
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  Enhancing rural Livelihoods through Participatory Watershed Development in India

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  India is remarkable not only in the scale of its wastelands, and in the volume of government funds committed to reversing degradation, but especially in the attempt to link environmental improvement and poverty reduction.
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  Making less last longer: informal safety nets in Malawi

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  Examines role of informal safety nets in providing protection against livelihood shocks.Summarises state of knowledge on informal safety nets by reviewing available literature and also reporting on household survey carried out in Malawi in 1999.Key finding is that informal transfers, either between rich and poor or the poor themselves, appear to be declining over time, partly as a general co
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  Reconciling Interests Among Wildlife, Livestock And People In Eastern Africa: ASustainable Livelihoods Approach

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  From the perspective of local livelihoods this paper explores the complex interactions between wildlife, livestock and people, and options for integrated wildlife and livestock management in the semi-arid rangelands of eastern Africa.
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  Rural livelihood diversity in developing countries: evidence and policy implications

  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 areas.
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  Non-farm rural livelihoods

  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 arising in the non-farm sector.
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  Livelihood security among pastoralists in Northern Sudan: post-hunger development in a country at war

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2000

  This paper focuses on the Hawaweer, a nomadic pastoralist group inhabiting the Northern part of Sudan. The Hawaweer were forced to migrate in the mid-eighties because of drought and hunger.
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  Ganyu Labour in Malawi and its implications for Livelihood Security Interventions:An analysis of recent literature and implications for poverty alleviation

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1999

  Ganyu is widely used in Malawi to describe a range of short term rural labour relationships, the most common of which is piecework weeding or ridging on the fields of other smallholders or on agricultural estates.
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  Urban livelihoods and food and nutrition security in Greater Accra, Ghana

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000

  Substantial abstract of a report studying the impact of urban life on the livelihoods, food security, and nutritional status of the poor in Accra. Examines food consumption and employment and income, as well as hygiene practices, sanitation conditions, and practices related to the care and feeding of children to determine their contributions to malnutrition.

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