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Status and key determinants of integrated farming systems in coastal regions of eastern India: a comparative assessment. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Pattanaik S   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Retrenchment under climate-driven risks in subsistence farming communities. [PDF]

open access: yesPopul Environ
Choquette-Levy N   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Livelihood Diversification in Rural Laos

open access: yesWorld Development, 2016
Livelihoods in rural southern Laos are highly diverse, comprising a wide range of different productive activities. In this paper motivations for diversification within livelihood strategies in rural communities in southern Laos are investigated through theories of distress-induced risk spreading in response to crises and progressive success and wealth.
Martin, S.M., Lorenzen, K.
core   +5 more sources

Household strategies and rural livelihood diversification

open access: yesJournal of Development Studies, 1998
This article reviews the recent literature on diversification as a livelihood strategy of rural households in developing countries, with particular reference to sub‐Saharan Africa. Livelihood diversification is defined as the process by which rural families construct a diverse portfolio of activities and social support capabilities in order to survive ...
Frank Ellis, Ellis, Frank
openaire   +2 more sources

Livelihood diversification strategies in the Himalayas

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2012
This article examines livelihood diversification strategies of rural households using survey data from the Himalayas. We present and explore an analytical framework that yields different activity choices as optimal solutions to a simple utility maximization problem.
Rahut, Dil Bahadur   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Determinants of Livelihood Diversification Strategies in Nepal

2021
Session ID 4817, Paper ...
Wang, Cong   +5 more
openaire   +1 more source

Livelihoods, Diversification, and Policies

2000
Abstract This book sets out a livelihoods approach to rural poverty reduction, and locates this framework in a larger context of dimensions of the development process, such as poverty, gender and the environment that concern re searchers, policy makers and development practitioners in rural development.
openaire   +1 more source

Determinants of Livelihood Diversification

2000
Abstract The purpose of this part of the book is to explore different dimensions of the livelihoods approach to rural poverty reduction, and of diversification as a key theme within the livelihoods framework. This chapter takes a disaggregated view of the reasons individuals and households pursue diversification as a livelihood ...
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