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Drought and Flood Risk, Impacts and Adaptation Options for Resilience in Rural Communities of Uganda

Lwasa, Shuaib - In: International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) 9 (2018) 1, pp. 36-50

central part of the semi-arid zone, droughts and floods impacts on livelihoods, people and assets are eroding the asset …

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Rural livelihood strategies in Cambodia: Evidence from a household survey in Stung Treng

Bühler, Dorothee; Grote, Ulrike; Hartje, Rebecca; Ker, … - 2015

The overall objective of this discussion paper is to advance the knowledge on rural livelihoods in Stung Treng … aimed at reducing poverty and improving rural livelihoods need to carefully consider the close linkages between rural … livelihoods and natural resources. But also a diversification away from natural resource extraction into higher-skilled jobs is …

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Effects of local institutions on the adoption of agroforestry innovations: evidence of farmer managed natural regeneration and its implications for rural livelihoods in the Sahel

Binam, Joachim N.; Place, Frank; Djalal, Arinloye A.; … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 5 (2017) 2, pp. 1-28

natural regeneration (FMNR) practices and, (2) evaluating the benefits of such practices on livelihoods. The propensity score …

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Rural-urban migration, welfare and employment: Comparing results from Thailand and Vietnam

Grote, Ulrike; Waibel, Hermann - 2017

This paper compares empirical findings on the motivation and welfare impacts of rural-urban migration from two comprehensive case studies conducted in Thailand and Vietnam. Panel data of around 4,000 rural households and tracking surveys of close to 1,000 migrants are used from the two...

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Promoting ecosystem-friendly irrigation farm management practices for sustainable livelihoods in Africa: The Ghanaian experience

Agula, Caesar; Akudugu, Mamudu Abunga; Mabe, Franklin Nantui - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-21

overemphasised. This paper analysed the effects of adopting ecosystem-based farm management practices (EBFMPs) on the livelihoods of … estimate the effects of adopting EBFMPs on livelihoods of farmers. Specifically, the average treatment effect (ATE) and average … EBFMPs has positive and significant implications for farmers' livelihoods. The paper therefore recommends that irrigation …

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Collective Capacity to Aspire? Aspirations and Livelihood Strategies in the Zambezi Region, Namibia

Aring, Mascha; Reichardt, Ole; Katjizeu, Ewaldine Menjono; … - In: The European Journal of Development Research 33 (2021) 4, pp. 933-950

simultaneously how aspirations contribute to future-oriented actions. In combining concepts of sustainable livelihoods and …

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Changing livelihoods in rural Cambodia: Evidence from panel household data in Stung Treng

Sharma, Rasadhika; Nguyen, Thanh Tung; Grote, Ulrike; … - 2016

Analysis of livelihood strategies can aid to understand and resolve problems associated with vulnerability to poverty and food security. This paper aims to identify and describe the changes in rural livelihood activities by using household data for 2013 and 2014 collected in Stung Treng,...

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“Because migration begins from the villages”: environmental change within the narrations of the Ewe diaspora

Hillmann, Felicitas; Okine, Rueben Korley; Borri, Giulia - In: Ethnic and Racial Studies 43 (2020) 16, pp. 39-56

The article analyses the role of environmental change within the narrations of the Ewe-diaspora, a sub-group of the Ghanaian diaspora. It focusses on the role and the impact of the diaspora when it comes to coping with environmental change at the place of origin. It highlights the nexus with...

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Valuing nature, paying for ecosystem services and realizing social justice : a response to Matulis (2014)

Corbera, Esteve - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 110 (2015), pp. 154-157

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Effects of farmer managed natural regeneration on livelihoods in semi-arid West Africa

Binam, Joachim Nyemeck; Place, Frank M.; Kalinganire, … - In: Environmental economics and policy studies 17 (2015) 4, pp. 543-575

livelihoods of the rural poor in the Sahelian countries. If 1000 households in a community decide to practice the FMNR …

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