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    Extensive pastoral livestock systems: issues and options for the future

    Japan-FAO Association, 1999
    This article explores extensive pastoral livestock systems.The article indicates that:extensive pastoral production used some 25% of the world’s land and produces some 10% of the meat used for human consumption, while supporting some 20 million pastoral householdspastoral production is split between the extensive enclosed systems and open range systemsrangelands used by pastoral
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    Applying livelihood approaches to Natural Resource Management initiatives: experiences in Namibia and Kenya

    Overseas Development Institute, 1999
    Reviews different uses of livelihoods analysis in four projects/programmes, and identifies lessons learnt on the application of a livelihoods approach. All four examples explored how rural livelihoods affect and are affected by natural resource management (NRM) initiatives. The main values of a livelihoods approach that emerge from these four applications are that:
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    Exploring understandings of institutions and uncertainty: new directions in natural resource management

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
    The paper examines the nexus between institutions and uncertainty in natural resources management contexts.It argues that conventional understandings of institutions fail to focus on how they deal with the ever-increasing forms of uncertainty impinging on rural livelihoods.
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    The contribution of soil and water conservation to sustainable livelihoods in semi-arid areas of Sub-Saharan Africa

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    Discusses the role of soil and water conservation (SWC) practices in sustainable livelihoods and presents preliminary findings from case studies conducted in Tanzania and Uganda. Describes the conditions under which households choose to invest in building or maintaining SWC practices within the framework of local livelihood strategies, together with the policies and structures which influence t
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    Sustainable Livelihoods and Project Design in India

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    Reviews the design of two new DFID projects in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, India. The projects aim to contribute to the Government of India’s efforts to eliminate poverty through support to its watershed development programme. The design of the two projects ran parallel to the development of the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach and framework.

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