scholarly journals The Role of Livelihood Assets’ Endowment in Adoption of Rural Livelihood Strategies: An Intra-Regional Comparison of District Bhimber, AJ&K

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Faisal Azeem Abbassi ◽  
Atta Ullah ◽  
Muhammad Saim Hashmi ◽  
Khadim Hussain ◽  
Nasim Akhter
Keyword(s):  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Regional Comparison ◽  
Livelihood Assets ◽  
Rural Livelihood

scholarly journals Livelihood Assets and Strategies among Rural Households: Comparative Analysis of Rice and Dryland Terrace Systems in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lun Yang ◽  
Moucheng Liu ◽  
Fei Lun ◽  
Qingwen Min ◽  
Canqiang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Factor ◽  
Multinomial Logit Model ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Livelihood Assets ◽  
Agricultural Knowledge ◽  
Agricultural Households ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Dynamic Conservation

The livelihood of peasant households is one of the selection criteria of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems and a critical factor that affects agricultural heritage system conservation and inheritance. Taking the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces System (HHRTS) and Shexian Dryland Terraces System (SDTS) as examples, we investigated 304 households through a participatory rural appraisal method to discuss the livelihood assets and strategies of households in agricultural heritage systems. From the viewpoint of livelihood strategies, household strategies can be divided into pure agricultural, nonagricultural, and part-time agricultural strategies. The livelihood strategies of households in the HHRTS feature a higher proportion of nonagricultural, while those in the SDTS have a diverse distribution. With respect to livelihood assets, we constructed a livelihood assets accounting framework to highlight the important role of traditional culture and information technology in agricultural activities. The average livelihood assets value in the HHRTS and SDTS was 2.249 and 1.832, respectively. Then, applying the multinomial logit model, we quantitatively analyzed the relationship between livelihood assets and strategies. The results show that in both terrace systems, the understanding of traditional agricultural knowledge is important to suppress the shift of pure agricultural households to nonagricultural or part-time agricultural households. Therefore, in order to achieve dynamic conservation of terrace systems, it is necessary to effectively increase the cultural assets level of households, especially farmers’ understanding of traditional agricultural knowledge.

The theory of social capital in studying immigrant livelihoods

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (8) ◽  
pp. 185-195
Author(s):  
Thuy Nguyen Thi Bich
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Career Experience ◽  
Livelihood Assets

Social capital is the term that receives lots of attention from Vietnamese and international authors. Social capital reduces the costs of economic transactions. It does not directly produce material and spiritual benefits, but converts it into other types of capital, thereby producing benefits. Social capital is important for immigrants in addition to other types of capital. The paper aims to analyze the theoretical views of different authors on social capital, livelihoods as well as the role of social capital in general and livelihoods of immigrants in particular. Using social capital in livelihood strategies has helped immigrants reduce costs in the addition of information on knowledge, career experience, procurement of livelihood assets; and find work, business cooperation,...

Enhancing Access and Use of Climate Information through ICTs

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Michaelina Yohannis ◽  
Timothy Waema ◽  
Agnes Wausi ◽  
Margaret Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Climate Information ◽  
Seasonal Forecasts ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Social Scientific

Although the role of ICTs in improving human life in Kenya is acknowledged widely, the focus of much of ICT-related developments has been on human experiences at the level of disease and needs for communication and mobility. Less obvious is how such technological interventions may be used to address seemingly abstract yet grave concerns like climate change and its impact on the quality of human life. This review paper, therefore, shall investigate the different situations where ICTs may be deployed in relaying packaged and relevant localized climate information that can help rural farmers in Kitui County, Kenya to make pertinent and timely decisions to improve their productivity and, ultimately, their livelihoods. We hypothesize that rural communities' use ICT tools such as the mobile phones and the community radios to access localized climate information (weather, seasonal forecasts, and agro-advisories) and that livelihood assets and livelihood strategies positively change with the increasing availability and use of the ICT-based climate information. The idea of the paper presented is to merge theoretical and applied research outcomes to narrow the gap between the theory of ICTs usage and the practice of it, while linking it to climate information and enhanced rural livelihood strategies. The review of this paper shall be captured in social-scientific terms, and shall contribute to knowledge by helping researchers and policymakers to determine climate information needs of rural ASAL communities, knowledge on innovations related to ICTs, among others.

scholarly journals The Nexus between Rural Household Livelihoods and Agricultural Functions: Evidence from China

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Bencheng Liu ◽  
Yangang Fang
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Agricultural Product ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Cultural Function ◽  
Livelihood Assets ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Farming Households

Understanding the relationship between households’ livelihoods and agricultural functions is important for regulating and balancing households’ and macrosocieties’ agricultural functional needs and formulating better agricultural policies and rural revitalization strategies. This paper uses peasant household survey data obtained from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) and statistical analysis methods, to analyze the differences in livelihood assets and agricultural functions of households with different livelihood strategies and the relationship between livelihood assets and agricultural functions. Households are categorized based on their livelihood strategies as full-time farming households, part-time farming I households, part-time farming II households, and non-farming households. The agricultural product supply and negative effects of the ecological service function of full-time farming households are higher than those of part-time farming and non-farming households. Part-time farming I households have the strongest social security function, while non-farming households have the weakest social security function. Non-farming households have the strongest leisure and cultural function, while part-time farming I households have the weakest leisure and cultural function. Households’ demand for agricultural functions is affected by livelihood assets. Effective measures should be taken to address contradictions in the agricultural functional demands of households and macrosocieties.

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.

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