scholarly journals Community-Based Tourism as a Strategy for Building Climate Resilience in Bhutan

2021 ◽  
pp. 387-398
Author(s):  
Ngawang Dendup ◽  
Kuenzang Tshering ◽  
Jamyang Choda
Keyword(s):  
Census Data ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Alternative Livelihoods ◽  
Climate Resilience ◽  
Alternative Livelihood ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Livelihood Options ◽  
Community Tourism ◽  
Resilient Communities

AbstractGovernments in developing countries are exploring numerous ways to respond to climate change and build resilient communities and in this chapter, we examine if community tourism can be one of the alternative livelihoods. We examine the benefit of community tourism on rural poor in Bhutan using household census data from 2017. We compare households from the sub-districts that received community tourism with the households from the sub-districts that did not. We use propensity score matching methods to make sure that other than the presence or absence of community tourism programs; these villages are similar in observed characteristics. The results show that households from the sub-districts that received the community tourism programmes are 10% more likely to have more than the average number of rooms in their homes (i.e. 4 rooms) and about 5% more likely to own a vehicle. Most of the tourism initiatives in Bhutan are promoted in protected areas, and thus, it is likely that households’ dependence on the natural environment (like forest and water bodies) may reduce. Further, based on this evidence, it is also likely that community tourism may not only help poor households in terms of enhancing household income, but it may also provide alternative livelihood options in the poor villages where opportunities are limited.

How Environmental Degradation Impoverishes the Poor

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward B. Barbier
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Agricultural Potential ◽  
Poor Soil

Globally, around 1.5 billion people in developing countries, or approximately 35% of the rural population, can be found on less-favored agricultural land (LFAL), which is susceptible to low productivity and degradation because the agricultural potential is constrained biophysically by terrain, poor soil quality, or limited rainfall. Around 323 million people in such areas also live in locations that are highly remote, and thus have limited access to infrastructure and markets. The households in such locations often face a vicious cycle of declining livelihoods, increased ecological degradation and loss of resource commons, and declining ecosystem services on which they depend. In short, these poor households are prone to a poverty-environment trap. Policies to eradicate poverty, therefore, need to be targeted to improve the economic livelihood, productivity, and income of the households located on remote LFAL. The specific elements of such a strategy include involving the poor in paying for ecosystem service schemes and other measures that enhance the environments on which the poor depend; targeting investments directly to improving the livelihoods of the rural poor, thus reducing their dependence on exploiting environmental resources; and tackling the lack of access by the rural poor in less-favored areas to well-functioning and affordable markets for credit, insurance, and land, as well as the high transportation and transaction costs that prohibit the poorest households in remote areas to engage in off-farm employment and limit smallholder participation in national and global markets.

scholarly journals Tulsi - An Alternative Livelihood for the Poor and Smallholder Farmers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghulam-Muhammad Shah ◽  
Farid Ahmad ◽  
Shailesh Panwar ◽  
Manber Khadka ◽  
Ajaz Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Cereal Crops ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Alternative Livelihood ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Percent Increase ◽  
Total Crop ◽  
Crop Income

This study assesses the pursued impacts of Tulsi value chain development intervention on the livelihoods of rural poor in Uttarakhand state of India. Tulsi as an alternative livelihood, particularly for the rural poor, is less explored. With increased crop depredation of major cereal crops grown in the district by wild animals and pests, and decreasing availability of water agriculture, attempts were made to improve earnings from Tulsi as an alternative livelihood. Findings suggest that the average households’ gross profit from Tulsi farming increases by more than double within a span of two years. Total crop income of beneficiary farmers’ increases by 0.8 percent for every 1 percent increase in Tulsi income. Intervention helped enhance productivity of Tulsi, thereby enhancing earnings from Tulsi farming. Most importantly, intervention has shown a tremendous adoption rate. Towards the end of the intervention, the value chain work was out-scaled to another 19 villages in Chamoli district, thereby reaching out to more than 400 households.

Impact of Microfinance on Investment Decision and Consumption Smoothing

2018 ◽  
pp. 52-64
Author(s):  
Arundhati Mukherjee ◽  
Ramesh Chandra Das
Keyword(s):  
Investment Decision ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Financial Service ◽  
Consumption Smoothing ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Consumption And Saving ◽  
Farming Households

Microfinance has emerged as a powerful tool for poverty alleviation in developing countries. The main objective of microfinance is to provide a cost-effective mechanism for providing financial service to the poor. This chapter attempts to highlight the effect of credit constraints on the productive investment decision of poor households and scope of microfinance in this respect. This chapter promotes the role of microfinance services in consumption smoothing and thus highlights the effect on investment decision of rural poor farming households. As an insured household is motivated to allocate a greater part of its resources away from consumption and saving in favor of investments, this chapter emphasizes the importance of insurance service in product basket of microfinance services.

Measuring Access of Microfinance on Poverty in India: Towards a Comprehensive Index

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arindam Laha ◽  
Pravat Kumar Kuri
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Comprehensive Index ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Economic Well Being

The outreach of micro-finance programme is considered to be a means enhance the economic well-being among the member means to enhance households through poverty alleviation. A wide cross-country variation in the outreach of micro-finance programme to the poor households is observed in the world. Despite the significant growth of micro-finance institutions and its active borrowers, the penetration of micro-finance lending services to the poor households in India is observed to be limited. In addition, there is a wide inter-state disparity in the achievement of micro-finance outreach in India especially among the poor households. A composite index has been constructed using the penetration, availability and usage indicators of micro-finance outreach to examine the interstate variations in the level of its achievement. Subsequently, attempt has been made to analyse the role of micro-finance in alleviating poverty across the states of India. The result shows that out of 27 states and Union Territories, only in seven states (Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura, and Karnataka) outreach of micro-finance programme has made a significant impact on the reduction of poverty.

Fishing for a Career: Alternative Livelihoods and the Hardheaded Art of Academic Failure

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-167
Author(s):  
Deb Cleland
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Marine Ecosystem ◽  
Academic Failure ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Alternative Livelihoods ◽  
Alternative Livelihood ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Charting the course: The world of alternative livelihood research brings a heavy history of paternalistic colonial intervention and moralising. In particular, subsistence fishers in South East Asia are cyclical attractors of project funding to help them exit poverty and not ‘further degrade the marine ecosystem’ (Cinner et al. 2011), through leaving their boats behind and embarking on non-oceanic careers. What happens, then, when we turn an autoethnographic eye on the livelihood of the alternative livelihood researcher? What lexicons of lack and luck may we borrow from the fishers in order to ‘render articulate and more systematic those feelings of dissatisfaction’ (Young 2002) of an academic’s life’s work and our work-life? What might we learn from comparing small-scale fishers to small-scale scholars about how to successfully ‘navigate’ the casualised waters of the modern university? Does this unlikely course bring any ideas of ‘possibilities glimmering’ (Young 2002) for ‘exiting’ poverty in Academia?

scholarly journals MEMAKNAI KEMISKINAN BERDASARKAN PANDANGAN ORANG MISKIN PEDESAAN

Edulib ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tine Silvana ◽  
Pawit M Yusup ◽  
Priyo Subekti
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Social Condition ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Education Psychology

AbstractRural poverty can be understood as a social condition of a person, or a group of people who were associated with aspects of economic and non-economic aspects. Scientific aspects such as social, cultural, health, education, psychology, the environment, law, anthropology, and art, was often associated with poverty. Nevertheless, the notion of poor and rural poverty is, in general, is still viewed by researcher's perspective, rather than emic, ie see something from the perspective of the participant. This study took part of the effort to comprehensively understand the meaning of poor and poverty in the eyes of the poor, especially in rural areas, roomates point is on how to map view of rural poor people in hopes of interpreting experience of livelihood as poor in underlying survival living. By using a qualitative study approach, especially the tradition of phenomenology of Schutz, obtained a description of the results, that the meaning of poor and poverty, in phenomenology, containing context, such as: context ownership; contexts effort and trial and error; contexts powerlessness; contexts outside assistance; independence in the context of compulsion; contexts unattainable expectations; context of the struggle; context of limited access to information; contexts low curiosity; contexts simplicity needs; problems humiliation context; and context sensitivity in social communication.Keywords: Meaning poor, Poverty, Rural AbstrakKemiskinan di pedesaan dapat dipahami sebagai suatu kondisi sosial seseorang, atau sekelompok orang yang terkait dengan aspek-aspek ekonomi dan non-ekonomi. Aspek ilmiah seperti sosial, budaya, kesehatan, pendidikan, psikologi, lingkungan, hukum, antropologi, dan seni, yang sering dikaitkan dengan kemiskinan. Namun demikian, gagasan tentang kemiskinan dan pedesaan, secara umum, masih dilihat dari perspektif peneliti, bukan emik, yaitu melihat sesuatu dari perspektif partisipan. Penelitian ini mengambil bagian dari upaya untuk secara komprehensif memahami makna miskin dan kemiskinan di mata masyarakat miskin, terutama di daerah pedesaan, which titik adalah bagaimana memetakan pandangan masyarakat miskin pedesaan dengan harapan pengalaman yang menafsirkan mata pencaharian sebagai masyarakat miskin untuk bertahan hidup. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan studi kualitatif, khususnya tradisi fenomenologi Schutz, diperoleh gambaran hasil, bahwa makna miskin dan kemiskinan, dalam fenomenologi, mengandung konteks, seperti: kepemilikan konteks; Upaya konteks dan trial and error; Ketidakberdayaan konteks; konteks di luar bantuan; kemerdekaan dalam konteks paksaan; konteks harapan tercapai; konteks perjuangan; konteks terbatasnya akses terhadap informasi; konteks rasa ingin tahu yang rendah; kesederhanaan konteks kebutuhan; konteks masalah penghinaan; dan sensitivitas konteks komunikasi sosial.Kata Kunci : Makna kemiskinan, Kemiskinan, Desa

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN TINGKAT KEMISKINAN DENGAN AKSES PANGAN DI KECAMATAN PARDASUKA KABUPATEN PRINGSEWU

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 539
Author(s):  
Nurjanah Nurjanah ◽  
Suriaty Situmorang ◽  
Eka Kasymir
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Food Access ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Poor Household ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Poor Households

This research aims to analyze the distribution of poor households and analyze the relation between poverty level and household food access. The method used in this research is a survey method. The location was chosen purposively with consideration that Pardasuka Subdistrict represents the highest RASKIN beneficiary area in Pringsewu Regency. The respondents are 67 households of the RASKIN beneficiary selected randomly.  The research data were collected in January 2019. The distribution of poor households was analyzed descriptively and household food access was analyzed by using correlation analysis. The results showed that the distribution of poor households in Pardasuka Subdistrict consists of 47.76% Pre-Prosperous, 19.40% Prosperous I, and 32.84% Prosperous II.  The relation between poverty level and household food access in Pardasuka Subdistrict Pringsewu Regency is negative and significant, which means that when the food access increases, then the poverty level of the poor households decreases.Key words: poor household, food access

scholarly journals Gender roles and activities among the rural poor households: Case studies from hill villages

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 65-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Binod Pokharel
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Long Time

The PDF of this file is 2,520 kbytes in size and therefore will take a long time to download if you click on the PDF link below. If you would like the file to be sent to you by email, please send a request to [email protected]. Please include the citation below in your request. DOI: 10.3126/opsa.v7i0.1111Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology Vol.7 2001 p.65-82

scholarly journals IDENTIFIKASI DAN STRATEGI PENGEMBANGAN MATA PENCAHARIAN ALTERNATIF UNTUK KESEJAHTERAAN MASYARAKAT DI TAMAN WISATA PERAIRAN LAUT BANDA

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Benny Osta Nababan ◽  
Yesi Dewita Sari
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Technical Training ◽  
Alternative Livelihoods ◽  
Management Group ◽  
Alternative Livelihood ◽  
Welfare Society ◽  
Rural Appraisal

Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengetahui potensi sumberdaya alam dan profil SDM yang terdapatdi TWP Laut Banda dan menentukan Mata Pencarian Alternatif (MPA) di TWP Laut banda dengan tetapmempertimbangkan keberlanjutan ekosistem dan sumberdaya perairan dalam mendukung pengelolaankawasan konservasi untuk meningkatkan pertumbuhan ekonomi masyarakat setempat. Penelitianini menggunakan tiga pendekatan yaitu: studi kepustakaan, observasi dan survei serta ParticipatoryRural Appraisal (PRA). Metode analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis rating scale, analisisstudi kelayakan dan analisis SWOT. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan mata pencaharian alternatif yangsangat layak dikembangkan (Prioritas 1) adalah budidaya rumput laut sedangkan layak dikembangkan(Prioritas 2) adalah home industry, kerupuk ikan dan bertanam sayur. Saran dan strategi yang perludiperhatikan antara lain melakukan sosialiasi, penyuluhan dan pelatihan teknis usaha pada prioritas1 dan prioritas 2 dengan harapan masyarakat terutama nelayan saat tidak melaut tetap meningkatkanpendapatan ekonomi namun tidak melakukan kegiatan destruktif. Selain itu perlu dibentuk kelembagaanpengelolaan (kelompok) mata pencaharian alternatif di TWP Laut Banda sebagai pelopor yang akanmenularkan kemampuannya dalam usaha kepada masyarakat lainnya. Perlu mendapatkan dukungandan fasilitasi dari pemerintah, terkait dengan mata pencaharian alternatif yang akan dikembangkanseperti pendampingan teknis dan membangun pola kemitraan bisnis untuk memperoleh penyediaanmodal dan akses pasar yang lebih luas mengingat sangat sulit akses transportasi di TWP Laut Banda.Title: Identification and Development Strategy of Alternative Livelihoodfor Welfare Society in Water Park of Banda SeaThis study aims to assess the potential of natural resources and human resource profile in TWPBanda Sea and then determine the Alternative Livelihood (MPA) in TWP Banda Sea. This study usedthree approaches: the study of literature, observations, surveys and Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA).Data analysis methods were used rating scale analysis, feasibility study analysis and SWOT analysis.The results showed that alternative livelihoods are feasible to be developed (Priority 1) is seaweedfsarming and should be developed (Priority 2) are a home industry, fish crackers and vegetable farming.Strategies can be done that socializing, counseling and technical training for alternative livelihoods inpriority 1 and priority 2. This was done in the hope of people especially fishermen, when they are notfishing, they still earn money, but did not do destructive activities. Addition it is necessary be formedinstitutional management (group) of alternative livelihood in TWP Banda Sea as a pioneer who willtransmit capability in order to other societies. Require to get the support and facilitation from the agencies,associated with alternative livelihoods that will be developed, such as technical assistance and businesspartnerships to get capital and market access given the very difficult transportation access in TWP BandaSea.

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