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  Rural livelihood diversity in developing countries: evidence and policy implications

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Examines livelihood diversification as a survival strategy of rural households in developing countries. Although still of central importance, farming on its own is increasingly unable to provide a sufficient means of survival in rural areas.
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  Key sheets for sustainable livelihoods

  Department for International Development, UK, 1998

  Aim of this series to provide a reference point for DFID decision-making about various aspects of service delivery and resource management. The series will also analyse different aspects of the policy process and options for donor intervention. Issues covered are:
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  Aquaculture, poverty impacts and livelihoods

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000

  Aquaculture is often viewed narrowly as intensive culture of salmon and shrimp to provide high value products for luxury markets and is often associated with environmental degradation. The promotion of aquaculture for rural development has had a poor record in many developing countries, especially in Africa.
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  Extension, poverty and vulnerability: inception report of a study for the Neuchatel Initiative

  Department for International Development, UK, 2001

  This inception paper reviews recent trends in poverty, vulnerability and extension, and the policy context in which extension is located. The paper concludes that:
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  Livelihood security among pastoralists in Northern Sudan: post-hunger development in a country at war

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2000

  This paper focuses on the Hawaweer, a nomadic pastoralist group inhabiting the Northern part of Sudan. The Hawaweer were forced to migrate in the mid-eighties because of drought and hunger.
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  Organic agriculture and sustainable rural Livelihoods in developing countries

  Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998

  Examines the contribution ethical trade initiatives can make towards the goal of sustainable rural livelihoods.
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  Ganyu Labour in Malawi and its implications for Livelihood Security Interventions:An analysis of recent literature and implications for poverty alleviation

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1999

  Ganyu is widely used in Malawi to describe a range of short term rural labour relationships, the most common of which is piecework weeding or ridging on the fields of other smallholders or on agricultural estates.
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  Rural Africa at the crossroads: livelihood practices and policies

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000

  This paper synthesises the findings and main policy implications of new empirical studies on changing rural livelihoods from the De-Agrarianisation and Rural Employment (DARE) research programme at the African Studies Centre, University of Leiden.Conclusions include the following: Largely as a result of structural adjustment performances, diversification out of agriculture has become th
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  Urban livelihoods and food and nutrition security in Greater Accra, Ghana

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000

  Substantial abstract of a report studying the impact of urban life on the livelihoods, food security, and nutritional status of the poor in Accra. Examines food consumption and employment and income, as well as hygiene practices, sanitation conditions, and practices related to the care and feeding of children to determine their contributions to malnutrition.
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  Sustaining livelihoods on Mongolia's pastoral commons

  International Association for the Study of Common Property, 2000

  Under the socialist regime that prevailed until the start of the 1990s, Mongolia made great progress in improving human development indicators, and poverty was virtually unknown.

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