Zambia: Structural adjustment, rural livelihoods and sustainable development

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Scott
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Rural Livelihoods

Why Study Sustainable Livelihood and Poverty Reduction?

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-42
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Sustainable Livelihood ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Reduction Strategies ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Development Goals

This introductory chapter utilizes a framework of inquiry on why people are poor based on sustainable livelihood and poverty reduction. A livelihood is sustainable when it copes with and can recover from stress and shocks, maintain or enhance its capabilities and assets, and provide sustainable livelihood opportunities for the next generation. This book examines the core issues, namely (1) the links between sustainable rural livelihoods and why people are poor; (2) the multilateral policy contexts of poverty; (3) poverty reduction within the context of globalizing world economy; (4) the economic and moral interdependence of humans and nature; and (5) the assessment of poverty among vulnerable groups, for instance, the elderly, the young, the ill, and the disabled. The themes of this volume orbit around characteristics and challenges of sustainable development, marginalization, social empowerment, social development theory, and poverty reduction strategies advocated by the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals worldwide.

Rural Households, Dragon Heads and Associations: A Case Study of Sweet Potato Processing in Sichuan Province

2007 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 898-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Lingohr
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Sichuan Province ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Agricultural Industrialization ◽  
Critical Determinant ◽  
Positive Effects

AbstractIn recent years Chinese government policies and research programmes have advocated agricultural industrialization in order to raise demand for farm products, facilitate structural adjustment in agriculture, create rural employment and increase farm incomes. But although agro-industrial activities have become a key feature of China's rural development strategy, the agricultural industrialization policy has been little studied outside China. This article is a case study of the implementation of agricultural industrialization and its impact on rural livelihoods in Sichuan province. It identifies and analyses two major forms of agricultural industrialization: “dragon head enterprises” and “rural associations.” Although agro-industrial development is likely to be a critical determinant of China's future social and economic trajectory, the preliminary analysis given here shows a mixed picture. Positive effects include increases in both income and employment. But there is also a negative dimension, shown by the existence of numerous entry barriers, unequal bargaining power and an uneven distribution of benefits.

The Current Situation of the Reuse of Architectural Transformation of the Old Industrial and Advice

2013 ◽  
Vol 869-870 ◽  
pp. 130-133
Author(s):  
Fang Qiang Yin ◽  
Hui Min Li
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Industrial Building ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Industrial Buildings ◽  
Architectural Transformation

Reuse of old industrial building is an important subject industrial structural adjustment and urban planning, as well as is part sustainable development strategy in China. China has some progress in this subject in recent years, but there are still many problems in the process of reuse and renovation of old industrial buildings. This thesis briefly introduces the present situation and existing problems in the transformation of old industrial buildings reuse, and puts forward some suggestions for improvement.

Poverty-environment relationships under market heterogeneity: cash transfers and rural livelihoods in Zambia

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-314
Author(s):  
Kathleen Lawlor ◽  
Sudhanshu Handa ◽  
Benjamin Davis ◽  
David Seidenfeld ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Transfer Program ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Rural Zambia

AbstractWe examine the environmental impacts of a cash transfer program in rural Zambia and investigate whether variation in market access is associated with heterogeneous impacts on natural resource use. We consider households’ use of firewood, charcoal, bushmeat and land for farming, as well as their ownership of non-farm businesses. We find that cash transfers increase the likelihood of charcoal consumption as well as the amount consumed for those living close to paved roads. The transfers also enable households to increase the size of their farms and establish non-farm businesses. These impacts are most pronounced for those living far from paved roads. While remoteness is associated with farm expansion in response to the cash transfer, more education causes those receiving the transfer to decrease the size of their farms. This impact heterogeneity has important implications for sustainable development.

scholarly journals Transformation of coffee-growing landscapes across Latin America. A review

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Celia A. Harvey ◽  
Alyssa A. Pritts ◽  
Marie J. Zwetsloot ◽  
Kees Jansen ◽  
Mirjam M. Pulleman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
Biophysical Changes

AbstractIn Latin America, the cultivation of Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) plays a critical role in rural livelihoods, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable development. Over the last 20 years, coffee farms and landscapes across the region have undergone rapid and profound biophysical changes in response to low coffee prices, changing climatic conditions, severe plant pathogen outbreaks, and other drivers. Although these biophysical transformations are pervasive and affect millions of rural livelihoods, there is limited information on the types, location, and extent of landscape changes and their socioeconomic and ecological consequences. Here we review the state of knowledge on the ongoing biophysical changes in coffee-growing regions, explore the potential socioeconomic and ecological impacts of these changes, and highlight key research gaps. We identify seven major land-use trends which are affecting the sustainability of coffee-growing regions across Latin America in different ways. These trends include (1) the widespread shift to disease-resistant cultivars, (2) the conventional intensification of coffee management with greater planting densities, greater use of agrochemicals and less shade, (3) the conversion of coffee to other agricultural land uses, (4) the introduction of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora) into areas not previously cultivated with coffee, (5) the expansion of coffee into forested areas, (6) the urbanization of coffee landscapes, and (7) the increase in the area of coffee produced under voluntary sustainability standards. Our review highlights the incomplete and scattered information on the drivers, patterns, and outcomes of biophysical changes in coffee landscapes, and lays out a detailed research agenda to address these research gaps and elucidate the effects of different landscape trajectories on rural livelihoods, biodiversity conservation, and other aspects of sustainable development. A better understanding of the drivers, patterns, and consequences of changes in coffee landscapes is vital for informing the design of policies, programs, and incentives for sustainable coffee production.

scholarly journals Towards Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Lebanon

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-70
Author(s):  
Malak Bou Diab
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Dynamic Perspective ◽  
Development Goals

Abstract Faced with provocation emerged from sustainable development, several states, and in specific organizations and other related social performers, are asking their tasks and desire to take dynamic perspective to social accountability. In doing this, they are faced with sustainable development challenges. Entrepreneurship constitutes the business efforts of an individual or group for earning profit and ensuring economic empowerment, while social entrepreneurship involves the business activities with an embedded social purpose focused on sustainability rather than immediate outcomes. Entrepreneurship is an important factor of economy. The development of social entrepreneurship needs a structural adjustment in the society. The principal paper aim is to investigate the social entrepreneurship role in improving sustainable development. Also, the paper will examine social entrepreneurship as an effective tool in resolving social problems, noting that social entrepreneurship analysis can provide a response to sustainable development challenges. The research focuses on addressing the current state of social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship indicators, pillars of entrepreneurship development, business environment and entrepreneurial opportunity and signifying the practicality of dissimilar business models developed in social entrepreneurship. Surveys were conducted on fifty different organizations (banks and audit companies) to collect data. Also, SPSS system was used to analyze the data gathered, to study the relationship between sustainable development and social entrepreneurship. Evidence suggests that social entrepreneurship can play a significant role for poverty reduction, ensuring employment, economic prosperity, environmental justice, pollution free ecology, good governance, reduction of terrorism, guarantee of peace, corruption control etc., thus offering opportunities to fulfill sustainable development goals in Lebanon. We can conclude that social business models develop a basic spread that grant social entrepreneurs to participate actively to sustainable development.

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