Sustainable development is of great significance in rural areas of China, which are under coupled pressures of poverty reduction, environmental protection and economic development. In these areas, agriculture is the primary sector in supporting their economies, where a number of the relevant production and processing practices cause many adverse impacts on environment and ecosystem. This poses ...

LADDER is a research project funded by the Policy Research Programme of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) that seeks to identify alternative routes by which the rural poor can climb out of poverty. LADDER is working with nearly 40 villages and 1,200 households in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya to discover the blocking and enabling agencies in the institutional environme...

The United Nations and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change deem many regions of southern Africa as vulnerable landscapes due to changing climatic regimes, ecological conditions, and low adaptive capacity. Typically in highly vulnerable regions, multiple livelihood strategies are employed to enable sustainable development. In Botswana, livelihood strategies have diversified over time to in...

Road expansion has played a prominent role in the agrarian transition that marked integration of swidden-based farming systems into market economy Southeast Asia. Rural roads deeply altered landscape and livelihood structures by allowing penetration boom crops such as hybrid maize remote territories. In this article, we investigate impact rural road developments on livelihoods northern Laos thr...

Introduction Situated approaches of rural livelihood diversification, such as community-based agritourism, can localize sustainable food systems at the regional level. This research advances an integrated framework indicators to assess interdisciplinary benefits diversification practices for local and community resilience. Methods We built a on four dimensions deducted from secondary data: (1) ...