Road building on geologically vulnerable slopes can trigger erosion, mass wasting and sedimentation. Disturbance of the natural drainage systems and making deep cuts and fills across already fragile slopes are the main causes. This often leads to excessive land degradation of land areas adjacent to the road. These effects have a direct bearing on the livelihoods of people who survive by subsist...

FOREWORD This is the second policy report from the Resilience and Freshwater Initiative (RFI). The ambition of the initiative is to make emerging scientific theories of resilience operational for policy making that concerns integrated water management. The initiative includes a wide scope of network partners such as Institute (SIWI). The findings from this report are however, the sole responsib...

There is a need for a more integrated and flexible approach to core area urban redevelopment at a time when pressures to maximise economic returns from inner city land threaten to disrupt the livelihoods and established social networks of many urban poor communities. This paper draws upon the experiences of established planning and partnership redevelopment strategies (i.e. land sharing, land r...

1 BasicNeeds Policy and Practice Directorate, Bangalore, India, 2 BasicNeeds UK, Leamington Spa, United Kingdom, 3 Livelihoods Education and Development Society (LEADS), Pokhara, Nepal, 4 BasicNeeds Policy and Practice Directorate, Oakland, California, United States of America, 5 Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdo...

Often neglected, food security1 and nutrition2 are critical for individuals, households and communities affected by HIV. Lack of food security and poor nutritional status may hasten progression to AIDS-related illnesses,3−5undermine adherence and response to antiretroviral therapy, and exacerbate socioeconomic impacts of the virus. HIV infection itself undermines food security and nutrition by ...