Improving animal health for poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods.

CBNRM, poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods: Developing criteria for evaluating the contribution of CBNRM to poverty reduction and alleviation in southern Africa

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Skills for Peace and Income Multi-Skills Training and Community Service Facilities for Sustainable Livelihoods and Poverty Alleviation

Cadastral reform, governance and poverty alleviation by Fourie

Increasingly developing world governments are being re-structured to improve governance and to alleviate poverty, and this also applies to government departments associated with the registration and cadastral systems. The link between cadastral reform, good governance and poverty alleviation will be explored by reviewing some of the recent thinking in this area, and by drawing on experience wit...

Veterinary public health capacity-building in India: a grim reflection of the developing world's underpreparedness to address zoonotic risks.

Veterinary public health (VPH) is ideally suited to promote convergence between human, animal and environmental sectors. Recent zoonotic and emerging infectious disease events have given rise to increasing calls for efforts to build global VPH capacities. However, even with their greater vulnerability to such events, including their economic and livelihood impacts, the response from low-and mid...

Assets, Livelihoods and Social Policy

In the past two decades poverty focused policy has changed remarkably in the South. This can be summarized as a shift from residual welfare poverty-alleviation strategies, commonly associated with ‘safety nets’, to social protection poverty-reduction policies. The latter in principle has a far broader mandate incorporating risk prevention and mitigation strategies, as well as the perennially ne...