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Searching with a thematic focus on Conflict and security, Livelihoods, Livelihoods conflict and disasters

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  Coping with conflict: livelihoods and development in Nepal

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Worsening conflict in Nepal is having a detrimental effect on the lives of the rural poor. As instability undermines existing policies aimed at improving rural livelihoods, development agencies have been slow to respond to the realities of working in a conflict situation. New research proposes best practice guidelines for agencies operating in similar contexts.
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  Creating livelihoods under stress: some examples from India

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2002

  This report details the process of creating and managing livelihoods under stress in India, through three case studies.
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  Livelihoods, chronic conflict and humanitarian response: a synthesis of current practice

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003

  A large part of the populations of several countries (including the more remote and agriculturally ‘difficult’ areas) live in situations of chronic conflict or political instability.
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  Picking up the pieces in Kosovo: understanding post-conflict livelihoods

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Do aid agencies know enough about the vulnerability and resilience of those affected by conflict? Are aid agencies driven by an emergency mentality which constrains staff from genuinely using participatory methods? How can livelihoods researchers in post-conflict states link community findings to macro-economic and political trends?
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  Water, livelihoods and resettlement of displaced people: lessons from Eritrea

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  In the past decade, the Gash-Barka region in Eritrea’s western lowlands on the borders of Sudan and Ethiopia has become a site of resettlement for refugees returning from Sudan and those displaced by border clashes with Ethiopia. What impact has their arrival had on an already fragile natural resource base? What lessons can be applied to other settlement schemes for displaced people?
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  Conserving the peace: resources, livelihoods and security

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2002

  This book developed from meetings between conservationists and those in the UK government concerned with security and conflict prevention.The book is based on the premise that environmental mismanagement and resource scarcity, alone or in conjunction with other forces, can have such a destabilizing impact on communities and societies that they may experience high levels of insecurity and even s
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  Saving lives and livelihoods: the fundamentals of a livelihoods strategy

  Feinstein International Center, USA, 1997

  Paper presents set of principles as the basis of a livelihoods strategy for complex emergencies and suggests appropriate actions to implement measures.Principles and actions suggested include: rigorous assessment - prepare relief workers to act strategically, move beyond distributing free relief, formulate country strategies aggressive capacity building - capacity assessm
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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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  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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