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Sustainable rural livelihoods: a summary of research in Mali and Ethiopia
Eldis Document Store, 2001What factors enable some people to achieve secure livelihoods and others to fail? How do poor households respond to changes in institutions and entitlements, and what is the part played by local, national, and international institutions in building livelihoods? This report summarises research from Mali and Ethiopia, which explored alternative routes to achieving sustainable livelihoods.DocumentSustainable livelihood opportunities and resource management in coastline communes facing special difficulties
Overseas Development Institute, 2004What are the livelihoods and poverty issues facing coastline communes in Vietnam? How can poverty alleviation programmes best respond to them? This publication reports on research carried out for the Government of Vietnam to inform a new national programme supporting infrastructure development in coastal areas exposed to harsh conditions.DocumentHill Agricultural Research Project (HARP), Nepal: lessons for the policy, institutions and processes dimensions of the Sustainable Livelihoods approach
Eldis Document Store, 2000How does the policy and institutional environment constrain agricultural research? Do competitive research funds improve agricultural extension services?DocumentConceptualising the links between HIV/AIDS and pastoralist livelihoods
Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 2003How are pastoralist livelihoods affected by HIV/AIDS? What research is needed to uncover pastoralists’ particular vulnerabilities and/or resilience to HIV/AIDS and its impacts? This conceptual paper sets out to identify knowledge gaps on the linkages between pastoralist livelihoods and HIV/AIDS.DocumentChanging organisations for agricultural extension in Bangladesh: strategies for change
Eldis Document Store, 2002This booklet is a case study to accompany “Changing Organisations for Sustainable Livelihoods: A Map to Guide Change".DocumentApplying people centred development approaches within FAO. Some practical lessons
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004How do people-centred development approaches get translated by institutions into implemented projects? What are the blockages to implementation? Do development approaches become redundant once the ideas they embody have been mainstreamed?DocumentAmbivalence and contradiction: a review of the policy environment in Tanzania in relation to pastoralism.
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006How can pastoralist livelihoods be supported and enhanced? What aspects of the current policy environment can be built on?DocumentAlternative livelihoods: substance or slogan
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005What roles does opium poppy production play in household livelihoods strategies? What is required to pursue alternative livelihoods effectively as a goal of the counter-narcotics objective in Afghanistan? This AREU Briefing Paper sets out the weakness of the current ‘alternative livelihoods’ response to opium poppy production in Afghanistan.DocumentA guide to indicators and methods for assessing the contribution of livestock keeping to Livelihoods of the poor
Eldis Document Store, 2005How can the ways in which livestock contribute to poor people’s livelihoods be measured?DocumentBrowsing on fences: pastoral land rights, livelihoods and adaptation to climate change
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008This paper presents an overview of pastoral systems and addresses rights issues around access and control of resources in the context of climate change. The document brings together the inputs made by over 120 participants in a 2006 web-based forum and also includes material from a number of projects from around the world.Pages