Monitoring the livelihood platform: reflections on the operation of the Livelihood Asset-Status Tracking method from India and Malawi

Poverty and Prosperity: Impact on Livelihood Assets of Billion Trees Afforestation Program in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan

“…The sustainable rural livelihood framework (SLF) is a theoretical framework with a complete holistic and interdisciplinary perspective, by which DFID addresses employees' involvements in beneficiary countries that covers the several dimension of livelihood and the extensive level of socioeconomic and other factors which contribute to it (Adato and Meinzen-Dick, 2002). This framework analyzes livelihood activities, people's access to resources, causes of poverty, and their relationships [26,27]. The focus in SLF is a household's status and to investigate ecological, economic and social factors which influence their potentiality to build sustainable livelihood approaches.…”

Utilizing Mixed Research Methods to Develop a Quantitative Assessment Tool

“…Livelihood assets may depreciate or appreciate over time (Bond, Kapondamgaga, Mwenebanda, Yadav, & Rizvi, 2007; Scoones, 2009). The value and use of an asset also depends on quantity and ownership status of the asset.…”

“…Some assets, such as land may be able to be sold, whereas human assets such as literacy may be used in productive activities. Other assets such as farm equipment may be used with other assets for particular activities (Bond et al, 2007; Scoones, 2009).…”

Perceived Concerns and Advocated Organisational Structures of Ownership Supporting ‘Offshore Wind Farm – Mariculture Integration’

“…These can be related to the role of the respective asset portfolio. In this context of considerable natural resource dependency, the capital assets (natural, physical, human, financial and social capital), the activities, and the access to these (mediated by institutions and social relations) determine the income and the "livelihood platform" of users of natural resources (Niehof, 2004;Bond et al, 2007). Capital assets are not only resources that people use in building livelihoods, they are assets that give them the capability to be and to act (Badjeck, 2008).…”

“…Contracts should be comprehensive enough to avoid creating an incentive structure which undercuts the initial reasons for cooperation. The complexity of the joint agreement is also affected by additional interdependencies which refine the nature of the assets exchanged (Obsorn & Baughn, 1990, Bond et al, 2007. The degree of differentiation between firms is a strong predictor of inter-firm coordination.…”