Restoring landscapes for post‐pandemic rural livelihood recovery and achieving global targets in India

India’s most of the population lives in rural villages, approximately 73% (SandeepSaxena) of the population held up with agriculture and associated works as their main stream of income resources. The Countries economic development and financial growth fundamentally depends on the rural area and their living standards of rural population. Entrepreneurship in rural areas is one of the utmost important initiate towards economic development of county and its constituencies. Rural Entrepreneurship facilitates to uses the scarce resources in most effective manner thus increasing profits and rural livelihood. Due to lack of educational knowledge gap most of the rural entrepreneurs are unaware of the innovative development techniques and modern marketing methods etc. The main problem faced by rural entrepreneurs is raw materials and financial investments. Commonly rural entrepreneurs face the strange problems like, lack of training and development programs, fear of risk, and lack of experience in business, illiteracy, limited market scope and competition from the city entrepreneurs.

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Market Survey of Non-Timber Forest Products in the Sunyani Municipality

Journal of Energy and Natural Resource Management ◽

10.26796/jenrm.v3i2.58 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 44-53

Author(s):

S.D. Akoto

Keyword(s):

Building Materials ◽

Significant Proportion ◽

Forest Products ◽

Packaging Materials ◽

Medicinal Products ◽

Monthly Basis ◽

Rural Livelihood ◽

Non Timber Forest Products ◽

Communal Lands ◽

Forest Lands

This study sought to: (1) identify the types and sources of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) traded; (2) find the frequencyof the NTFPs trade and (3) identify the challenges in NTFPs trading in the Sunyani Municipality. The survey was carried outfrom February, 2014 to April, 2014 mainly at the Sunyani Central and Nana Bosoma Markets in the Sunyani Municipality. Thetarget population comprised NTFPs collectors (gatherers), sellers and consumers. Respondents were purposively sampled. Atotal of 100 respondents were engaged in this study. The NTFPs were grouped into six categories namely; food, medicine,building materials, packaging materials, artefacts and domestic utensils. Key informants’ interviews were also conducted atthe Sunyani Forest Services Division to triangulate the data already gathered. Statistical Package for Social Sciences was usedto analyze the data obtained. The study demonstrated that domestic utensils (37%), food (33%), medicinal products (12%),packaging materials (9%), artefacts (6%) and building materials (3%) were the types of NTFPs traded in the two market centers.The results also showed that majority of the respondents (77%) harvest their NTFPs from forest lands as against 23% whoharvest from communal lands. A significant proportion of the respondents (52%) traded in above 40 kg of NTFPs and only 4%were seen trading in 10 kg of NTFPs. The study further highlighted that food (28%) and domestic utensils (26%) were regularlybrought to the market centers on weekly basis whilst significant proportions of medicinal products (9%), building materials(3%) and artefacts (4%) were brought to the market venues on monthly basis. Cumbersome permit procedure (40%), increasedmarket demand (15%) and financial constraints (20%) were identified as some of the challenges encountered in NTFPs tradingin the Sunyani Municipality. To ensure strict monitoring and sustainability of the resource, there is the need for sensitizationprogramme on the importance of NTFPs in rural livelihood and why their conservation is vital in meeting the needs of thepresent generation whilst not undermining their potential in supplying the needs of future generations.

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Biomass Energy Economics and Rural Livelihood in Sichuan, China

10.3726/b12724 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Qiu Chen

Keyword(s):

Energy Economics ◽

Biomass Energy ◽

Rural Livelihood

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Empowerment of Rural Women through SHGs: A Study in Telangana

Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies ◽

10.21922/srjis.v4i36.10004 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (36) ◽

Author(s):

Shankar Chatterjee

Keyword(s):

Rural Women ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Poverty Line ◽

Rural India ◽

Group Approach ◽

Research Article ◽

Self Help ◽

Rural Livelihood ◽

The Family ◽

Self Help Group

The self-help group (SHG) is a powerful instrument to empower economically backward women of rural India as the women members under the SHG not only can earn income but they feel empowered also. With the launching of Swarnajaynti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India from April 1999, subsequently rechristened as Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana–National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM) self-help group approach (SHG) has been given utmost importance in India for the development of rural women mainly focusing on below poverty line households. SHG concept is popular in many rural areas of India as through economic development and subsequently empowering, rural women have got a solid platform. This research article has discussed the how rural women after forming SHGs in Ranga Reddy district (R.R. District) of Telangana were not only earning and contributing to the family but felt empowered also. The study was carried out at Gandipet village of Gandipet Mandal, Ranga Reddy (R.R.) district in September 2017. The some women members of 10 different SHGs were contacted and few individual cases are presented here.

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

International Journal of Rural Management ◽

10.1177/09730052211000875 ◽

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.

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Human-wildlife conflicts and rural livelihood in Okomu national park, Edo state, Nigeria

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/655/1/012097 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 655 (1) ◽

pp. 012097

Author(s):

Oluseun A. Akinsorotan ◽

Veronica A. Odelola ◽

Oluwatobi E. Olaniyi ◽

Bukola G. Oguntuase

Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

Rural Livelihood ◽

Edo State

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Accessibility of Rural Life Space on the Jianghan Plain, China: The Role of Livelihood

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18031301 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 1301

Author(s):

Rongrong Zhuo ◽

Mark Rosenberg ◽

Bin Yu ◽

Xinwei Guo ◽

Mingjie Wang

Keyword(s):

Rural Households ◽

Service Planning ◽

Central China ◽

Daily Activities ◽

Rural Life ◽

Jianghan Plain ◽

Life Space ◽

Mediation Effects ◽

Rural Livelihood ◽

The Relationship

This article aims to contribute to the relationship between accessibility of rural life space and rural livelihood capital and transitions in rural central China. Employing data produced from a household survey, we developed a composite index for accessibility of rural life space incorporating spatial and temporal attributes of a household’s daily activities and then explored the mediation effect of rural livelihood capital and transitions on accessibility. Results revealed a pattern of diversification in terms of life space accessibility undertaken for daily activities across households. Both livelihood capital and transitions had significant mediation effects on the relationship between socio-economic characteristics of rural households and accessibility of rural life space. The effects of livelihood capital on livelihood transitions also influenced the path on rural households’ accessibility of rural life space. One of the implications of this article is to link rural transformation to the context of urbanization and rural access issues from a perspective of daily activity, and then to figure out the best method for rural development policy and service planning.

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