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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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  Assessing the potential of forest product activities to contribute to rural incomes in Africa

  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 income safety net, but which decline once better alternatives become available.

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