scholarly journals Rural Livelihood Diversification Status and Determinant Factors in Arsi, Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Tamrat Gebiso Challa
Keyword(s):  
Livelihood Diversification ◽  
Determinant Factors ◽  
Rural Livelihood

Neither survival nor accumulation: Marketisation and rural livelihood diversification in northern Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-456
Author(s):  
Minh Chau Lam
Keyword(s):  
Rural Households ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Livelihood Diversification ◽  
Home Production ◽  
Doi Moi ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Livelihood Options ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Local Term

Building on ethnographic fieldwork in a northern Vietnamese village, this article explores how rural households have negotiated the opportunities and uncertainties of marketisation (Đổi Mới). I focus on the surprising ways local households have handled the state's push to diversify livelihoods and adopt commercial home-based sidelines: by means of being đa gi năng, a local term that means ‘keeping many livelihood options and never putting all eggs in one basket’. In pursuit of đa gi năng, local households have actively adopted home-based production even when they were doing well with paddy farming and faced no subsistence crisis. However, they have evaded what state officials want most: specialising in a single home-production enterprise in rational maximising ways to accumulate transformational wealth. The idea of đa gi năng calls into question two contrasting universal approaches to rural households’ motivations for livelihood diversification: either a desperate search for survival by passive victims of market forces, or a quest for wealth accumulation by rational maximisers without careful judgement of potential risks to one's family.

scholarly journals Tourism as a Pathway to Rural Livelihood Diversification: A Study of Mognori Ecovillage in the Savannah Region of Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-71
Author(s):  
Conrad-J. Wuleka Kuuder
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Livelihood Diversification ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
Farm Tourism ◽  
Household Heads

As a means of mitigating the effects of restrictions arising from the creation of the Mole National Park, a tourism intervention was  introduced in Mognori, a village on one of the fringes of the famed park.This study assesses the Mognori Ecovillage Project especially in terms of its anticipated role in diversifying livelihoods. Qualitative research approaches were employed. Instruments such as In-depthInterview schedules were used to elicit information from household heads while focus group discussions (FGD) were used to elicit data from homestay operators and cultural dance troupes. Tourism was found to play an important diversification role in the sense that it provided both full-time and alternative means of income for some residents especially in the dry season. Tourism has become the “life wire” of some locales and the community needs to take steps to attract more tourists and provide a richer but engaging itinerary through improving cultural tourism resources such as the introduction of products like farm tourism and angling in the Mognori River. It is recommended that the homestay providers be trained in visitor reception skills including basic communication in Enghish language to enhance the experience of visitors. Keywords: Mognori Ecovillage, homestay, livelihood diversification, stipends, canoe safari

scholarly journals Rural Livelihood Diversification in West Bengal: Nature and Extent

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dilruba Khatun ◽  
Bidhan Chandra Roy
Keyword(s):  
West Bengal ◽  
Livelihood Diversification ◽  
Rural Livelihood
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