Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the Rural South

Abstract

The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details.

Household Livelihood Strategies and Implication for Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas of Central Nepal

“…Almost two-thirds of the world's poor people reside in the rural areas of low-income countries, mainly depending on subsistence farming and other natural resources for their livelihood [2]. However, low productivity in farming and limited accessibility to non-farm income sources have been increasing vulnerability of these people who are often poor and deprived with a minimum standard of life [3,4]. Although poverty is a multi-dimensional issue, it is directly associated with a household's income, asset holding, and other economic activities that mutually generate a household's livelihood strategy and outcomes [5].…”

“…Although poverty is a multi-dimensional issue, it is directly associated with a household's income, asset holding, and other economic activities that mutually generate a household's livelihood strategy and outcomes [5]. Hence, it is important to underpin the underlying mechanism related to rural poor's livelihood strategies in order to achieve the international goal of poverty reduction [3].…”

Fishing for Fairness : Poverty, Morality and Marine Resource Regulation in the Philippines

“…In addition, there may be older people in the region who also engage in fishing within MPAs or other illegal fishing practices; they may be simply more discreet or modest about it. Notwithstanding these speculations, however, the limited data I have suggests that following Rigg (2006), it is younger people who more often adopt these practices. More strongly influenced by globalisation, younger people are expressing their desire to move out of the fishing sector for a variety of reasons.…”

The globalisation of agriculture: introducing the Handbook

“…This has placed increased pressure on subsistence production systems in parts of the tropics as food production solely for purposes of consumption by farmers and their families is inexorably displaced by production for sale, and even farmers remote from metropolitan centres become part of the global agri-food system (Mertz et al, 2009;Gudeman, 2013). This process has produced greater wealth for some, but there have also been negative outcomes (see Rigg, 2006), including the abandonment of ecologically beneficial traditional farming practices; increased environmental destruction; the demise of traditional social and cultural institutions as a result of intensified production; the shedding of farm labour, which adds to rural unemployment or swells the numbers migrating to rapidly growing cities; and increased production of non-food crops like cotton, coffee, tobacco and palm oil, where processing (and sometimes crop production too) is largely dominated by the TNCs.…”