What drives livelihood diversification among predominantly rural households in developing countries and how can welfare-enhancing patterns be established sustained the long run? A large literature has focused on whether income is a means of survival or accumulation, but it remains inconclusive. We first examine pattern for panel Tanzania from 1990s—the Kagera Health Development Survey—with focu...

The notion of sustainability is the basis for our future possibilities. Local sustainability, in the centre of which can be found the livable settlement, is especially important in rural areas. Without developing rural areas, there is no developing society. The growth of the Earth’s population and the world economy has already surpassed the carrying capacity of this planet which may result in a...

iv Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Ecology ....................................................................... 2 Soil/fertilizer ....................................................................... 3 Economics ....................................................................... 4 Illegal Practices ....................................................................... 6 Nutrition and Liveli...

We present amethodological approach for constructing an agent-basedmodel (ABM) to assess community food security and variation among livelihood trajectories, using rural Malawi as a case study. The approach integrates both quantitative and qualitative data to explore how interactions between households and the environment lead to the emergence of community food availability, access, utilisation...

Globally, agriculture provides a livelihood for more people than any other industry. Growth in agricultural production and productivity is needed to raise rural incomes, to support the increasing numbers dependent on the industry and to meet the food and raw material needs of the faster growing urban populations. Enhancing agricultural productivity contributes to industrial growth by providing ...

This paper examines how transnational gold mining operations are transforming rural household livelihoods in the Cajamarca region of Peru. In particular, this paper evaluates how Newmont Mining Corporation’s Minera Yanacocha (MYSA) mining operations are altering access to the produced, human, natural and social capital resources that households utilize to produce their livelihoods. The paper ar...

*Corresponding Author Email: [email protected] Raising farmers’ productivity and incomes are a necessity. This study investigated the roles ICTs play in improving farmers agricultural livelihoods. Using a multi-stage sampling technique, 250 agricultural producers were chosen randomly from 10 agricultural cooperatives in Imo state. Data were collected by means of questionnaire and analyzed ...