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The China Quarterly, 2010
AbstractThis article examines how local resistance against government attempts to reduce poverty to a technical problem ironically reinforces the precarious state of the poor. It looks at the workings of the minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao) through mundane interactions between street-level officials and poor residents in a workers' village on the ...
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AbstractThis article examines how local resistance against government attempts to reduce poverty to a technical problem ironically reinforces the precarious state of the poor. It looks at the workings of the minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao) through mundane interactions between street-level officials and poor residents in a workers' village on the ...
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Population and Environment, 2007
The purpose of this study is to analyse the mechanisms and effects of population pressure on rural livelihood system in South central Ethiopia from 1950 to 2004. In Sub-Sahara Africa population pressure takes two different forms: (1) a pressure on existing household to accommodate a growing number of children (change in household dependency ratio); (2)
Bo Malmberg, Tsegaye Tegenu
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The purpose of this study is to analyse the mechanisms and effects of population pressure on rural livelihood system in South central Ethiopia from 1950 to 2004. In Sub-Sahara Africa population pressure takes two different forms: (1) a pressure on existing household to accommodate a growing number of children (change in household dependency ratio); (2)
Bo Malmberg, Tsegaye Tegenu
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Monitoring land degradation in Brazil: Impacts on vulnerable populations and their livelihoods
As a signatory to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Brazil has made significant progress in combating desertification through initiatives such as the National Policy to Combat Desertification and Mitigate the Effects of Drought (PNCD), implemented in 2015, and the New Brazilian Action Plan to Combat Desertification and ...John Cunha +6 more
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Population mobility and livelihood diversification among indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon
2013Throughout the Amazon, new roads, infrastructure, oil pipelines, colonist settlements, and mechanized agriculture, however, suggest an uncertain future for indigenous peoples. Indigenous communities of the Amazon are undergoing intense socio-economic, demographic, and cultural changes.
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Agriculture, Food Security and Livelihoods of the Mexican Population Under Market-Oriented Reforms
2015The objectives of this chapter are threefold: (1) to evaluate the effect of reforms and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in agricultural production and food security on the rural economy and the livelihoods of the population of Mexico with special attention to maize (the major staple food of Mexico), (2) to reflect on the future of food ...
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14 Rural Livelihoods, Urbanization, and Incomplete Population Transitions in Brazil
2022Alisson F. Barbieri, Ricardo Ojima
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A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century
World Development, 2022Nithya Natarajan +2 more
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The influence of culture on the sustainable livelihoods of households in rural tourism destinations
Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2021Rong Wang, Meiling Dai
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