Vietnam is a country that found itself at the center of Indochina wars and was subjected to most intense aerial bombing in history. However, little research has been done on effect unexploded ordnance (UXO) contamination household livelihoods rural Vietnam. In this paper, we investigate contaminating households. Livelihood choices are classified by cluster analysis techniques, measured district...

The great majority of the population in the countries most affected by HIV/AIDS live in rural areas. In many African countries, farming and other rural occupations provide a livelihood for more than 70 per cent of the population. Hence, it is to be expected that the HIV/AIDS epidemic will cause serious damage to the agriculture sector in those countries, especially in countries that rely heavil...

Conflicting perspectives on forests has for a long time challenged forest policy development in Sweden. Disagreements about forest futures create intractable deadlocks when stakeholders talk past each other. The purpose of this study is to move beyond this situation through the application of participatory backcasting. By comparing visions of the future forest among stakeholder groups, we highl...

Introduction The more we learn about the interaction between HIV/AIDS and livelihoods, the more complex the picture seems to become. Although we must avoid paralysis in the face of such complexity, we must also be humble about our perceptions. We must look closely at the local context and the diverse external factors in addition to HIV and AIDS that constrain households and livelihoods at any g...

In the world’s highest tropical mountain range, the Cordillera Blanca of Peru, impacts linked to climatic change, increasing pressures on water resources, rapidly rising petroleum costs and shifting market conditions are threatening the viability of agricultural systems. Currently, these distinct processes of change are converging in ways that significantly enhance and reinforce their negative ...

Cassava contributes significantly to the nutrition and livelihood of up to 500 million people and thousands of processors and traders around the world. Besides serving as the primary staple food of millions of people in the tropics and subtropics, it can also be used as a carbohydrate source in animal feed. Cassava is used as a raw material in the manufacture of processed food, animal feed and ...