Are there options outside livestock economy? Diversification among households of northern Kenya
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Livelihood Options? The Political Economy of Access, Opportunity and Diversification
vi 1 Definitions and Dimensions of Livelihood Diversification 1 1.1 Definitions of diversification: multiplicity and/or change? 1 1.2 Livelihoods in the economy: basic dimensions of livelihood activities 1 2 Structural Transformation and the Non-farm Economy 4 2.1 Industrialisation and urbanisation 4 2.2 Regional growth theory and the rise and fall of the rural non-farm economy 5 2.3 Global str...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pastoralism
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2041-7136
DOI: 10.1186/s13570-016-0050-4