Rapid urbanization and the gradual disappearance of urban rural barriers have accelerated surplus labor migration. This study focused on household’s livelihood from perspective farmland lease-out. Using 382 households’ data in Jiangxi Province, we used seemingly unrelated regression binary logistic models to analyze impact lease-out capital strategy. The results indicated that did not affect hu...

The deepest problems we have to understand and resolve are in these relations of nature and livelihood.... [T]he central change we have to make is in the received and dominant concept of the earth and its life forms as raw materials for generalized production.... But in the equally necessary perspective of ... an apparently unmediated nature—the living world of rivers and mountains, of trees an...

The northern Central Plateau of Burkina Faso has been the site of extensive development assistance since the1980s. Thousands of hectares of degraded land have been rehabilitated through investments in Soil andWater Conservation (SWC) techniques. Comprehensive assessments of these projects have documented theirbeneficial impacts. This study extends these insights to consider the effe...

In conflict-affected situations, aid-funded livelihood interventions are often tasked with a dual imperative: to generate material welfare benefits and to contribute to peacebuilding outcomes. There may be some logic to such a transformative agenda, but does the reality square with the rhetoric? Through a review of the effectiveness of a range of livelihood promotion interventions--from job cre...

We explore how diet diversity differs with agricultural seasons and between households within pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihood systems, using variety of foods consumed as a less complex proxy indicator of food insecurity than benchmark indicators like anthropometry and serum nutrients. The study was in the central part of the rangelands in Uganda. Seventy nine households were monitored for...

A coastal community vulnerability index (CCVI) was constructed to evaluate the vulnerability of coastal communities (Buhangin, Pingit, Reserva, Sabang, and Zabali) in the municipality of Baler, Aurora, Philippines. This index was composed of weighted averages of seven vulnerability factors namely geographical, economic and livelihood, food security, environmental, policy and institutional, demo...