Introduction: Toward a wider perspective on women's employment

Small-scale forest carbon projects: Adapting CDM to low-income communities

“…Low-income communities aspire to sustainable livelihoods by opposing vulnerability in the face of risk or uncertainty, by exploitation of concrete and indefinable assets (Chambers, 1995). They are often governed by hidden institutions (Bass et al, 2006), dependent on social networks (Grown and Sebstad, 1989) and social capital (Pretty, 2003), and often lack rights to essential services, as well as access to decision-making platforms. These features in turn contribute to poor governance of environmental management.…”

Well-Being is a Process of Becoming: Respondent-Led Research With Organic Farmers in Madagascar

“…Gender-focused research seeks to pin down for a moment the shifting, relational nature of gender, and the active role of men and women in constructing their identities, in 'doing gender'. It involves pinning down what it means to be a man or woman in a specific place and time (Grown and Sebstad 1989).…”

Home-Based Economic Activities and Caribbean Urban Livelihoods : Vulnerability, Ambition and Impact in Paramaribo and Port of Spain

“…Livelihood opportunities or capabilities are defined as what people can be or do with their livelihood outcomes (Sen 1999). Households may aim to survive, seek security or try to increase their wealth (Grown and Sebstad 1989;Ghafur 2000;Beall 2002:73). This study assesses the current livelihood opportunities of the household and what their opportunities would be without the HBEA.…”