Background Climate change is gaining importance as scientific and socio-economic studies have brought forth substantial evidences (American Meteorological Society 2012; Norris et al. 2008; Agrawal and Perrin 2008; Paavola 2008; IPCC 2014; UNFCCC 2007; Adger and Kelly 1999). The impact of climate change is more likely to have an adverse effect in the developing countries due to high dependency o...

Scientific and policy interest in the biological diversity of agriculture (agrobiodiversity) is expanding amid global socioeconomic and environmental changes and sustainability interests. The majority of global agrobiodiversity is produced in smallholder food-growing. We use meta-analyses in an integrated framework to examine the interactions of smallholder agrobiodiversity with: (1) livelihood...

Women play a signi cant and crucial role in agricultural development and allied  elds. This paper presents a potentially effective empowerment strategy for women, using Backyard poultry as a case-study. The empowerment of women is the key issue in protecting women’s interests. The rural women folk were provided with desi poultry birds, inputs and capacity building to strengthen their liveliho...

Taiwan’s location in a zone of strong seismic activity means that earthquakes regularly threaten human life and transportation facilities. The importance of bridges in Taiwan’s transportation grid makes the destruction or damage of such during earthquakes impact significantly on people’s livelihood. However, within the grid, the importances of individual bridges differ from one another in terms...

The article advances the hypothesis that the seasonal and inter-annual variability of rainfall is a significant and measurable factor in the economic development of nations. An analysis of global datasets reveals a statistically significant relationship between greater rainfall variability and lower per capita GDP. Having established this correlation, we construct a water resources development ...

This paper aims to analyze how the terms ‘vulnerability’ and ‘poverty’ can be elucidated in a variety of ways, with different meanings, different implications and their interrelationship. The analysis shows poverty is generally associated with deprivation of health, education, food, knowledge, influence over one’s environment and the many other things that make the difference between truly livi...

The article discusses the causes of the difficulties and contradictions associated with the management information systems referring to the competences of knowledge workers in organizations. As far as entities are concerned, the reasons are mainly the effects of global phenomena of socio-economic life. Unfortunately, with the increase in the declared need for competences in the knowledge-based ...