(PES) to economic development and poverty reduction is an issue of importance since they may represent a new source of … focus upon the equity implications of ES programs and how can they affect poverty alleviation. The final section addresses …

This paper examines the relationship between rurality and poverty, and the role the agricultural sector can play in … rural development, poverty reduction, and overall development. The historical views regarding the role of the primary sector …

Poverty and food security in most countries are highly heterogeneous phenomena. Both types and depth of poverty …, measured in a variety of ways, vary between and within countries, regions or other geographic and administrative units. Poverty … mapping in all its various forms involves techniques which permit sufficient disaggregation of a poverty measure to local …

The objectives of the study were to obtain a better understanding of households' pathways into, and out of, poverty …, with poverty defined from the communities' own perspective. The authors used a community-based methodology called the … 'stages of progress' approach to assess household poverty dynamics in 20 communities and for over 1,700 households …

producers in these states. To that end, the paper assesses the relationship between land, livestock, and poverty, describes the …