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    Effects of livelihood assets on poverty status of farming households’ in Southwestern, Nigeria

    AgEcon Search, 2011
    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. This study examines the effects of farmers’ household livelihood assets on poverty.
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    Unleashing the potential of young rural people

    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.
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    Putting a livelihood perspective into practice: systemic approach to rural development

    Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2009
    These days, development practitioners are able to draw on a number of analytical frameworks to assist in the design and implementation of poverty reduction programmes. In fact, it has become a bit of a challenge to draw on all the material available in order to pinpoint key issues that realise impact on the ground.
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    The rural finance landscape. A practitioner's guide

    Network Learning, 2009
    Rural finance refers to financial services such as savings, lending, insurance and remittance services provided by a variety of actors. These actors can be friends, relatives, shopkeepers, traders, money lenders, traditional savings and lending groups, microfinance programmes or banks.
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    Rural livelihoods systems

    www.poverty-wellbeing.net, 2008
    Why do individuals and households adopt a particular livelihood strategy and not another one?
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    World resources 2008: roots of resilience—growing the wealth of the poor

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2008
    Three-quarters of the world’s poorest citizens – those living on less than $2 per day – are dependent on the environment for a significant part of their daily livelihoods. But the world’s natural resources are increasingly being degraded amidst climate change and population growth.
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    Water and the rural poor: interventions for improving livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

    Land and Water Development Division, FAO, 2008
    Insecure access to water for consumption and productive uses is a major constraint on poverty reduction in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. This publication addresses the linkage between water and rural poverty in the region, in order to help decision-makers make informed choices on where and how to invest.
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    Operational guidelines for assessing impacts of agricultural research on livelihoods: Good practices from CIMMYT

    Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo, 2007
    Following a livelihoods approach, this manual responds to the need of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) scientists and field partners for guidance on impact assessment (IA).
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    World Development Report 2008: agriculture for development

    World Development Report, World Bank, 2007
    Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. This year’s edition of the World Bank's World Development Report (WDR) highlights the importance of agriculture for achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.
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    Women and food crises: how US food aid policies can better support their struggles

    ActionAid International, 2007
    Women are often at the centre of food crises and are disproportionately affected by hunger, yet their central role in providing solutions is often overlooked. This discussion paper lays out some of the key issues in modern food crises, discusses the role of food aid in addressing them and explores opportunities for engaging women more actively in food aid policy.

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