This paper raises the issue of what kind of monitoring system can serve the learning needs of livelihood improvement projects which follow a process approach. It is concerned, in particular, with monitoring not only achievement of planned project outputs, but also with higher level project impacts normally needed to achieve project purpose or goal. A simple and rapid method to track the livelih...

The distribution of economic benefits from wetlands is fundamentally determined by ownership and control of resources, and hence the property rights and institutional setting of analysis is critical in determining the ecological sustainability of management practices. In the last decade it has been recognised that wetlands, in common with many coastal resources can, given certain circumstances,...

nayshābūr achieved considerable scholarly growth in the 3rd-6th/9th-12th centuries that was coupled with some ups and downs. this scholarly and academic growth was associated with desirable economic conditions. one of the instances of desirable economic conditions in nayshābūr was manifested in the scholars’ livelihood, and therefore, the scholars’ academic progress was to some extent dependent...

The study conducted in the state of West Bengal has identified the determinants and constraints to livelihood diversification among different livelihood groups. The study has shown that household-head experience (age), educational level, social status, training, asset position, access to credit, rural infrastructure, agroclimatic condition and the overall level of economic development of a regi...

Veterinary public health (VPH) is ideally suited to promote convergence between human, animal and environmental sectors. Recent zoonotic and emerging infectious disease events have given rise to increasing calls for efforts to build global VPH capacities. However, even with their greater vulnerability to such events, including their economic and livelihood impacts, the response from low-and mid...

This paper highlights the socio-economic impacts of HIV/AIDS on women. It argues that the socio-cultural beliefs that value the male and female lives differently lead to differential access to health care services. The position of women is exacerbated by their low financial base especially in the rural community where their main source of livelihood, agricultural production does not pay much. B...

Introduction Policy makers and extension planners often assume smallholder mixed farming systems are incapable of evolving fast enough to meet growing food demands and that livestock are relatively unimportant to household food production or welfare (FDRE, 1994), except for intensive units. The resulting policy promotes substitution of either intensive cropping or livestock production in place ...

Abiotically stressful environment in changing climate is predicted to impact negatively the diversity and abundance of insect-pests; and ultimately the extent of damage caused in economically important agricultural crops. This may affect perilously the agricultural production and the livelihood of farmers especially in tropical and subtropical countries where larger proportion of work force is ...

There is more than enough food in the world to feed everyone, but the number of people affected by hunger and malnutrition is still ‘unacceptably high’ (FAO 2014), with disproportionate impacts on women and girls. Due to unequal and subordinate gender roles, women face lack of access to and control over critical livelihood and productive resources. This asymmetric power relation severely constr...