The poor peasant: One label, different lives. The dynamics of rural livelihood strategies in the Gia-Kajelo community, Northern Ghana

2002 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Awetori Yaro
Keyword(s):  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Poor Peasant

scholarly journals Farmers’ livelihood strategies and perceived constraints from the poor and non-poor households: A dataset from a field survey in Nghe An, Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quy Van Khuc ◽  
Quan-Hoang Vuong ◽  
Phu Pham ◽  
My-Hien Nguyen ◽  
Cong-Thang Ngo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development ◽  
Plantation Forests ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Perceived Constraints

rural livelihood, plantation forests, primary data, sustainable rural development, Vietnam

Is deagrarianisation real? A study of livelihood activities in rural northern Ghana

2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Awetori Yaro
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Farm Sector ◽  
The Poor

This article examines the livelihoods, portfolios and degree of deagrarianisation of the peasantry in three villages in northern Ghana. It argues that deagrarianisation should be seen as a process embedded in social change, bearing in mind the reversibility between farm and non-farm livelihood strategies used by households (reagrarianisation?). A livelihoods research approach involving qualitative household interviews and quantitative surveys in three villages in the Kassena-Nankani district constitute primary data for this study. Contrary to the deagrarianisation thesis, this study found that livelihood adaptation, implying both a diversification to new or secondary livelihood activities and changing the form, nature and content of the farm sector, characterised rural livelihoods in the area. The adaptation process involves not just a move from the farm to the non-farm sector, but also an intensification of efforts in the farm sector with seasonal diversification into other livelihood activities. The supposedly ‘booming non-farm sector’ is not entirely real, for reasons of marginalisation and exclusion of the poor peasantry, resulting from spatial, capital, infrastructural and market limitations.

Livelihood Promotion: Can the Collectives of NRLM Really Do It?

2021 ◽  
pp. 097300522110008
Author(s):  
H. S. Shylendra
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Professional Support ◽  
Role Clarity ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
Policy Suggestions ◽  
New Generation

As a new generation development programme, the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) has sought to promote collectives of the poor women as the corner-stone of its strategy for livelihood promotion. The livelihood enhancement is meant to be actualised through a multi-dimensional strategy of livelihood protection and promotion. The paper hypothesised that despite their avowed goal, the collectives of women are bound to face enormous challenges in the livelihood promotion in the absence of an integrated approach more so in the context of neoliberalism. The findings of the paper corroborate the hypothesis to a great extent. Contrary to the theoretical visualisation of institutionalists, collectives of poor have faced challenges in their self-reliant emergence. The intervention has emerged more as a minimalist microfinance with inherent limitations regarding poverty alleviation. The paper concludes that the collectives of NRLM have a long way to go before they can emerge as strong livelihood promoting agencies. Sustained support to build the capacities of the fledging collectives, a reversal of the top–down elements of their multi-tier structure and the strong need for greater role clarity for the collectives along with professional support are some of the policy suggestions.

Payments for environmental services and rural livelihood strategies in Ecuador and Guatemala

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
DOUGLAS SOUTHGATE ◽  
TIMOTHY HAAB ◽  
JOHN LUNDINE ◽  
FABIÁN RODRÍGUEZ
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Contingent Valuation ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Payments For Environmental Services ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Individual Strategies

ABSTRACTPresented in this paper are the results of two contingent valuation analyses, one undertaken in Ecuador and the other in Guatemala, of potential payments for environmental services (PES) directed toward rural households. We find that minimum compensation demanded by these households is far from uniform, depending in particular on individual strategies for raising incomes and dealing with risks. Our findings strengthen the case for allowing conservation payments to vary among recipients, which would be a departure from the current norm for PES initiatives in Latin America.

scholarly journals Livelihood vulnerability index analysis: An approach to study vulnerability in the context of Bihar

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhuri . ◽  
Hare R. Tewari ◽  
Pradip K. Bhowmick
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Adaptive Strategy ◽  
Vulnerability Index ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Index Analysis ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
The Impact

Vulnerability is the capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impact of natural disasters. Floods add to the distressed conditions of the poor and vulnerable people in Bihar. Floods have a different impact on households depending on differences in their livelihood choices. Therefore, in order to identify the variability in vulnerability of affected households, the livelihood vulnerability index (LVI) of Hahn, Riederer and Foster was modified according to the context of the study area. The LVI aims to identify sources and forms of vulnerability that are specific to the context in order to design context-specific resilience measures. However, vulnerability and resilience are not interdependent but discrete entities. The study was conducted in the seven blocks of Bhagalpur district in the state of Bihar. Naugachia was found to be the least vulnerable because of better access to basic amenities and livelihood strategies, whilst Kharik was found to be highly vulnerable in respect to other blocks because of high sensitivity and less adaptive strategy. The study also revealed that better access to resources does not necessarily mean that households are adopting resilience measures because of apathetic or indifferent attitudes.

scholarly journals Poverty, Vulnerability, Non-timber Forest Products and Rural Livelihood: An Indian Experience

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Jeetesh Rai
Keyword(s):  
Potential Risk ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Poverty Trap ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Indian Experience ◽  
Non Timber Forest Products

Poverty, vulnerability as well as rural livelihoods are all complex and dynamic themes making it difficult to achieve. Households may respond differently to risk depending on factors such as the household’s socio-economic class, its lifecycle stage, its exposure to risk, its asset base and the coping strategies at their disposal. Rural households invest in a diversity of livelihood strategies and assets in order to spread potential risk and provide a buffer against vulnerability. Whilst some see this diversity as an inevitable poverty trap, households diversify as a means of coping as well as in response to changing opportunities and constraints. This paper argues that in India better management of forests and forest products like Non-Timber Forest Products can protect the rural poor - especially the forest dwellers, from the poverty trap, climatic vulnerability and insecure livelihood.

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