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Sustainable Rural Livelihoods and Women's Access to Resources in a Southern Ghanaian' Forest Community [PDF]
This thesis examines the organization of livelihoods in a forest reserve fringe community in south western Ghana. Livelihoods in these communities have been organized within three main contexts.
Abane, Henrietta
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Youth, AIDS and rural livelihoods in southern Africa [PDF]
This is the post-print version of the final published article that is available from the link below. Copyright © 2008 The Authors.AIDS, in interaction with other factors, is impacting on the livelihood activities, opportunities and choices of young ...
Chipeta, L. +14 more
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Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches - Can they transform development? [PDF]
YesThis paper critically examines the sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA) in the context of broader development debates, using a literature review as a tool to explore the origins, concepts and uses of the `approach¿.
Mdee (nee Toner), Anna L.
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Natural forest resources are the most accessible sources of services, products and incomes for many adjacent rural communities. However, the declining resilience of forests and agricultural sectors particularly in South Africa is concerning and a real ...
Edilegnaw Wale +2 more
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Background: The South African job creation challenges have been well documented by different scholars. The knowledge gap is what the transformational role of rural stakeholders is in securing sustainable livelihoods through small, medium-sized and micro ...
Tshililo R. Farisani
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Putting livelihoods thinking into practice: implications for development management [PDF]
YesThe failure of `blueprint¿ development interventions to deliver substantive improvements in poverty reduction has been well recognised over the last twenty years.
Mdee (nee Toner), Anna L. +1 more
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Purpose: Pregnant adolescent girls (15–19 years) are more vulnerable to poor health and nutrition than adult pregnant women because of marginalization and lack of knowledge about the antenatal care (ANC) services.
Prakash H. Fulpagare +16 more
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Agricultural Extension Needs of Spinach (Basella spp.) Farmers in Rivers State, Nigeria
This study examined the agricultural extension needs for spinach (Basella spp.) production by farmers’ in Rivers state, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure involving purposive technique was used to select 110 respondents’ from 10 communities in
Angela Izukanne Emodi
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Use of a Bayesian belief network to predict the impacts of commercializing non-timber forest products on livelihoods [PDF]
Commercialization of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) has been widely promoted as a means of sustainably developing tropical forest resources, in a way that promotes forest conservation while supporting rural livelihoods.
Marshall, Elaine +6 more
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In South Africa, different spheres of government (national, provincial and municipal) have different responsibilities with respect to rural planning and development.
Menini Gibbens , Carel Schoeman
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