Exploring sustainable livelihoods approaches in relation to two interventions in Tanzania

Toner, A.

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“…The SLA became popular in terms of assessing poverty situations and providing a set of guiding principles that encapsulate the best way of planning, implementing and evaluating development initiatives at the ground level [1, 19,20]. However, whilst the SLA is effective in centralising people and their capabilities, it has not adequately addressed the significance of a cultural perspective in livelihood analysis [21][22][23][24][25][26]. An inadequate consideration of the cultural perspective oversimplifies not only people, but also their resourcefulness and capacities and, thus, the complexity and diversity of resource entitlement and livelihood opportunities.…”

Section: Culture and Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: Analytical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Resilience—The Roles of Cultural Traditions in Sustaining Rural Livelihoods: A Case Study from Rural Kandyan Villages in Central Sri Lanka

Daskon

2010

Sustainability

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Abstract:The reasons for the significance of cultural values are complex and many advocacy groups have not successfully provided clear explanations for and convincing arguments in favor of prioritizing cultural values in the development processes. The aim of this paper is to examine the roles played by culture in relation to livelihood resilience, posing the question of how cultural traditions might potentially offer alternatives/adaptive strategies, not only to strength livelihood assets of rural communities, but also in generating new opportunities during vulnerabilities caused by economic, social and political changes. Rural Kandyan communities afford us a good example of "cultural resilience", relying on longstanding cultural traditions for their survival. This paper shows how culture and traditional values strengthen livelihood resilience and argues that while the impulse for change may come from external influences, adaptation comes from within, through dynamics, which are specific to values of the people.

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Section: Culture and Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: Analytical Frameworkmentioning

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Cultural Resilience—The Roles of Cultural Traditions in Sustaining Rural Livelihoods: A Case Study from Rural Kandyan Villages in Central Sri Lanka

Daskon

2010

Sustainability

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“…First, in codifying complexity, SLA analyses often underplay the significance of macro‐level political economy. This both obscures understanding of the wider context of livelihoods and risks casting the poor as responsible for their own situations (Arce 2003; Murray 2002; Toner 2003). Second, SLA is criticised for its relative blindness to social relations within households and communities (Sneddon 2000).…”

Section: Youth and The Aids Pandemic In Southern Africa: The Issuesmentioning

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Youth, AIDS and Rural Livelihoods in Southern Africa

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AIDS, in interaction with other factors, is impacting on the livelihood activities, opportunities and choices of young people in southern Africa. This article explores these linkages firstly by reviewing what is known about the impacts of AIDS on young people, before looking more specifically at how this impinges on their future ability to secure livelihoods. Within the home and family, AIDS often results in youth taking on a heavy burden of responsibilities. This can include caring for sick relatives, helping with chores and taking on paid employment. This burden of care and work can have further impacts on young people's future livelihoods as they find they have reduced access to schooling, potential loss of inheritance and a breakdown in the intergenerational transfer of knowledge, which is especially important for sustained agricultural production. The article ends by suggesting that the sustainable livelihoods approach can be useful for understanding the complexity of the issues surrounding the impacts of AIDS on young people's livelihoods and calls for further research to explore how their access to future sustainable livelihoods in rural southern Africa might be supported.

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“…This was substantially informed by the previous work of the authors. Anna Mdee has conducted extensive field research on agricultural livelihoods and natural resources governance in multiple locations in Tanzania since 1996 (Toner 2003;Cleaver and Toner 2006;Mdee 2017a, 2017b;Mdee 2017;Harrison and Mdee 2018;Mdee and Harrison 2019;Brockington et al 2019); Michael Chasukwa has researched and published on the political economy of agriculture and on local government capacity in Malawi since 2005 (Chinsinga and Chasukwa 2012Chinsinga, Chasukwa, and Zuka 2013), and Simon Manda has researched and published extensively on agriculture in Zambia, including a recent three year investigation of large scale land acquisition (Manda, Dougill, and Tallontire 2018a. We also reviewed the AFRINT survey data for each of the countries and worked in close co-operation with senior researchers from AFRINT country teams.…”

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Neither sustainable nor inclusive: a political economy of agricultural policy and livelihoods in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia

Mdee

Ofori

Chasukwa

et al. 2020

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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The food crisis of 2007/8, alongside rapid population growth, and the uncertainties of climate change propelled African agricultural transformation back into the development mainstream. New narratives of 'climate-smart agriculture' and 'sustainable intensification' underlie this contemporary transformation. We present a political economy analysis of agricultural policy and livelihoods in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, and use this to assess the challenge of achieving 'sustainable and inclusive intensification'. We find little evidence that agricultural institutions have the capacity to deliver sustainable intensification in agriculture, or that agricultural policy drives changes in agricultural livelihoods that will make them either more sustainable or inclusive.

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Exploring sustainable livelihoods approaches in relation to two interventions in Tanzania

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Cited by 42 publications

References 8 publications

Cultural Resilience—The Roles of Cultural Traditions in Sustaining Rural Livelihoods: A Case Study from Rural Kandyan Villages in Central Sri Lanka

Cultural Resilience—The Roles of Cultural Traditions in Sustaining Rural Livelihoods: A Case Study from Rural Kandyan Villages in Central Sri Lanka

Youth, AIDS and Rural Livelihoods in Southern Africa

Neither sustainable nor inclusive: a political economy of agricultural policy and livelihoods in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia

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