Living Care-Fully: The Potential for an Ethics of Care in Livelihoods Approaches

Hanrahan, Kelsey B.

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.03.014

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“…The assumption under livelihood diversification is that people engage in a range of activities that produce livelihood outcomes by drawing from a range of livelihood assets [50]. Livelihood assets (or capital) are therefore important determinants of livelihood outcomes [51,52]. This paper approaches the study of the determinants of livelihood diversification in selected rural communities around the KIFL in Cameroon, with similar livelihood diversification strategies.…”

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Measuring Livelihood Diversification and Forest Conservation Choices: Insights from Rural Cameroon

Kimengsi

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Kechia

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Forests

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While forests’ contribution to rural livelihoods has been unearthed scientifically, the patterns, determinants and forest conservation policy implications of livelihood diversification still beg for more scientific and policy edification. This paper makes a contribution in this regard, using household data (N = 200) from eight villages around the Kilum-Ijim Forest Landscape of Cameroon. The ordinary least square and the logit model are used to explore the determinants of livelihood diversification and the likelihood of forest dependence, respectively. The diversification patterns were analysed using a simple t-test, and the multinomial logit for conservation choices. We find that forest-related activities are a source of livelihood diversification for 63% of households, with non-timber forest products (NTFP) domestication (31%) and medicinal plant extraction (30%) being the most preferred. For non-forest activities, migration is the most preferred diversification strategy. Generally, households with favourable socio-economic status prefer non-forest to forest activities for livelihood diversification. The regression estimates indicate that older respondents are more likely to depend on the forest than the young, whereas males and individuals with at least some secondary education are less likely than their respective counterparts to rely on the forest. The results also suggest those who participated in training, educated household heads and older individuals are significantly more likely to choose high-valued diversification strategies. Concerning conservation activities, households with favourable socio-economic status are on average less likely to adopt NTFP domestication and more likely to adopt bee-keeping as a conservation choice. The results suggest the need for policy considerations to: (i) effectively integrate women in forest management processes, (ii) intensify trainings for conservation-friendly diversification approaches, (iii) regulate unclean energy use and (iv) encourage value chain improvement for conservation-friendly products.

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Section: Data Collectionmentioning

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Measuring Livelihood Diversification and Forest Conservation Choices: Insights from Rural Cameroon

Kimengsi

Pretzsch

Kechia

et al. 2019

Forests

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“…Equally, using indicators of resilience, social capital, and collective action, the role of informal microfinance institutions in supporting development led tourism entrepreneurship in Cameroon have equally received scientific attention [59], including through participatory action research [57]. While ecotourism might have not effectively supported livelihoods, scholars have equally been interested in identifying potential alternative livelihood strategies in this regard [60,61]. Recent studies have focused on analyzing the alternative livelihood strategies that local community members utilize to insulate themselves against the fragmented nature of the ecotourism industry [2,[62][63][64].…”

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Households’ Assets Dynamics and Ecotourism Choices in the Western Highlands of Cameroon

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Ecotourism is increasingly accepted as a suitable alternative for sustaining rural livelihoods. In spite of this trend, quantitative assessments of relationships between household assets and ecotourism choices, and the policy implications thereof, currently account for only a negligible number of studies in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper contributes to this evidence gap by analyzing the extent to which households’ assets drive ecotourism choices on a representative sample of 200 households in Cameroon. The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and the Human Development Index (HDI) were used to construct indices for ecotourism choices. The ordinary least square and logit models were also employed to estimate the effect of various household assets on ecotourism choices. A high preference was observed for the production and sale of arts and crafts items and the promotion of cultural heritage sites as key ecotourism choices. More women are found to participate in conservation education, as opposed to culture-related activities such as arts and crafts. Access to education and training were inversely related to cultural festival promotion. The results suggest the need to: (i) stem the overdependence on conservation sites for wood supply to the arts and crafts sector, (ii) enforce endogenous cultural institutional regulations, including those that increase female participation in guiding future ecotourism choices. This paper contributes to ecotourism development and conservation theory, with regards to unbundling household level predictors of ecotourism choices, and has implications on the design of policies to implement environmentally less-demanding ecotourism activities.

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“…Previous studies have drawn on an ethics of care to explore the emotional dynamics of caring relations between children and parents/relatives living with HIV in homespace (Evans and Thomas 2009), to analyse the gendered, often interlinked 'taking care of' and 'caregiving' phases of the caring process that young people engage in following parental death (Evans 2014) or to demonstrate the potential contribution of an ethics of care to livelihood approaches (Hanrahan 2015). Few studies have used this theoretical approach to explore interactions between teachers and pupils in school spaces in the global South.…”

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The emergence of an ethic of care in rural Kenyan schools? Perspectives of teachers and orphaned and vulnerable pupils

Skovdal

Evans

2016

Children's Geographies

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In the context of HIV, there is considerable debate about the role of schools and teachers as potential sources of care and support for vulnerable children. This qualitative research examines 'care' as experienced and practiced by pupils and teachers in rural Western Kenya. In primary and secondary schools, interviews were conducted with 18 teachers and 57 orphaned and vulnerable pupils, alongside Photovoice. Drawing on thematic analysis and an 'ethic of care' theoretical perspective, we unpack the informal caring practices of teachers within resource-constrained settings. The research provides glimpses of schools as spaces of care, participation and support for orphaned and vulnerable pupils. Recognising and providing institutional support for the development of an ethic of care in schools may help to tackle the considerable educational barriers facing girls and boys who are orphaned and vulnerable and move 'care' closer towards the centre of educational policy and practice in the global South.

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Living Care-Fully: The Potential for an Ethics of Care in Livelihoods Approaches

Cited by 20 publications

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Measuring Livelihood Diversification and Forest Conservation Choices: Insights from Rural Cameroon

Measuring Livelihood Diversification and Forest Conservation Choices: Insights from Rural Cameroon

Households’ Assets Dynamics and Ecotourism Choices in the Western Highlands of Cameroon

The emergence of an ethic of care in rural Kenyan schools? Perspectives of teachers and orphaned and vulnerable pupils

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