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  Land reform and its impact on livelihoods: evidence from eight land reform groups in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa

  Farm Africa, 2005

  One of the key objectives of the South African land reform programme is to provide poor people with an additional asset that they could use to develop strategies to escape from poverty.
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  The impact of water conflicts on pastoral livelihoods: the case of Wajir District in Kenya

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  This report describes and analyses relationships between natural resource-based conflicts and pastoral livelihoods in Wajir District, Kenya in order to examine the extent to which livelihood opportunities are lost to people when they spend their time and resources managing water related conflicts.The study findings confirm the assumption that water is a critical resource that determines success
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  Effects of climate change on the sustainability of capture and enhancement fisheries important to the poor: analysis of the vulnerability and adaptability of fisherfolk living in poverty

  Fisheries Management Science Programme, UK, 2004

  Although the majority of the world’s fisherfolk live in areas susceptible to the impacts of climate change, relationships between the physical impacts of climate change and the livelihood vulnerability of poor fishing communities have seldom been investigated.
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  Targeting livelihoods evidence

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  This manual draws on real experience from Uganda to provide advice to forestry planners and managers on how to go about raising the profile of forestry at the level of national government. This involves "marketing" forestry: customising the product and building a chain of relationships to help get the new product to customers.
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  Livelihoods, growth, and links to market towns in 15 Ethiopian villages

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  Contrary to the popular belief that rural and urban areas are essentially separate entities, this papers examines the important links that exist between the two. Despite the many potential benefits, the importance of local and regional urban centres to rural livelihoods remains largely under-researched.
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  Herding on the brink: towards a global survey of pastoral communities and conflict

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  Examining the linkages between pastoralism and conflict using a sustainable livelihoods-based conflict analysis, this paper looks at the challenges posed by conflict in pastoral regions.
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  Impact of sustainable livelihoods approaches on poverty reduction

  Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005

  This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty.The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Honduras, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, and Zambia) achieved positive changes in indicators of poverty reduction such as increa
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  Rural households and resources: a SEAGA pocket guide for extension workers

  Socioeconomic And Gender Analysis Programme, FAO, 2005

  This pocket guide aims to assist extension and other community-based workers to understand the management of resources within and between rural households. It has been developed to assist people in applying a participatory and gender- responsive approach in their planning with and service to rural women and men.
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  The need for Special Products and Special Safeguard Mechanisms for agriculture in the WTO: a situational analysis

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper argues that developing countries need to identify the areas in multilateral trade rules that are required to facilitate the achievement of goals in food security, livelihoods and rural development needs.
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  Chance, change, and choice in Africa's drylands

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2004

  This paper focuses on policy dimensions in improving the livelihoods of the inhabitants of Africa’s drylands, who account for an estimated 40% of the continents population.

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