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Farmers’ organisations and agricultural technology: institutions that give farmers a voice
Eldis Document Store, 2000What kind of farmers' organisations have most influence on agricultural research and extension practices?In what kind of institutional environment do farmers' organisations operate most effectively to support their livelihoods?In this paper Karim Hussein reports on a study of 16 farmers’ organisations in West and Central Africa, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Burkina Faso and The Gambia.The groupDocumentConceptualising 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?DocumentClimate change and displacement
Forced Migration Review, 2008In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming one of the major policy challenges of this century.DocumentClimate change in eastern and southern Africa: impacts, vulnerability and adaptation
Global Environmental Change and Human Security International Project Office, 2008In its most recent assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that all of Africa is likely to warm during this century, with the drier subtropical regions warming more than the moist tropics. Annual rainfall is likely to decrease throughout most of the region, with the exception of eastern Africa, where annual rainfall is projected to increase.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