Impact of Rural Livelihood Diversification on Livelihood Security in West Bengal

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Dilruba Khatun ◽  
Bidhan Chandra Roy
Keyword(s):  
West Bengal ◽  
Livelihood Diversification ◽  
Livelihood Security ◽  
Rural Livelihood

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

scholarly journals Boswellia and Commiphora Species as a Resource Base for Rural Livelihood Security in the Horn of Africa: A Systematic Review

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan ◽  
Glover ◽  
Luukkanen ◽  
Kanninen ◽  
Jamnadass
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Social Science Citation Index ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Livelihood Security ◽  
Rural Livelihood

The dryland vegetation and particularly the Acacia-Commiphora woodlands support the livelihoods of approximately 52 million rural households in the Horn of Africa. Aromatic resins are valuable non-wood forest products (NWFPs) derived from Boswellia and Commiphora species in the drylands of this region. The study seeks to answer the following main questions: “What are the ecological and livelihood roles of resin producing species, and the role that people have in either degrading or restoring these ecosystems?” “Who are the participants in frankincense and myrrh production, processing, and trade, and how do these people interact?” “What is the current and potential future economic impact of frankincense and myrrh production and trade at the household level?” “What are the barriers to enhanced economic outcomes?” The study involves the use of PRISMA method—a systematic methodology to identify, select and analyze the recent literature on aromatic resins in relation to such factors as socio-economic situation, livelihood security, value chain, climate change adaptation, ecology and sustainable development in the Horn of Africa. Systematic identification of publications was conducted using several sources, including but not limited to electronic databases for literature search. Web of Science, Social Science Citation Index and Google Scholar and various scientific journals were investigated using search terms and restrictions. A total of 991 references were retrieved, but literature only published between 2003 to 2017 was selected, which led to the use of 51 works for full-text assessment. The results indicate that of the 51 selected studies, 45% focused on ecology and sustainable management, 31% on economic contribution and livelihood security, 20% on production and value chain development, and 4% on climate change adaptation and mitigation. It could be concluded that farmers’ adoption of Boswellia and Commiphora species as economic tree crops in the Horn of Africa has a distinct role in biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation by contributing to the sustainability of ecosystem functioning as well as improving household incomes and the rural livelihood security in general, and thereby facilitating poverty alleviation.

Intersections between rural livelihood security and animal pollination in Anolaima, Colombia

Geoforum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Marcela Cely-Santos ◽  
Flora Lu
Keyword(s):  
Livelihood Security ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Animal Pollination

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.

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