Livelihood diversification of farmers and nomads of eastern transect in Tibetan Plateau
Livelihoods of farmers and nomads in Tibetan Plateau are severely affected by grassland and herbal resources degeneration. This paper examines livelihood assets, livelihood diversification level and livelihood strategies of farmers and nomads in 3
regions of eastern transect in Tibetan Plateau. The results show that livelihood diversification is a popular strategy. Relationship between livelihood assets and livelihood diversification level is explored and specific measures to improve livelihoods
Changing flood plain livelihood patterns in the Peruvian Amazon
An attempt is made to relate the subsistence activites among the inhabitants of a community located on the flood plain of the Amazon in northeast Peru. Emphasises placed in explaining (a) the traditional livelihood patterns (b) the changes occurring
Time-geography and economic development : the changing structure of livelihood positions on arable farms in Nineteenth century Sweden
Changement social ; Concept ; Ecole géographique ; Géographie historique ; Histoire de la géographie ; Livelihood position ; Mode de faire-valoir ; Paysannerie ; Siècle 19 ; Société rurale ; Statut social ; Structure agraire ; Suède ; Théorie ; Time
Le concept de statut social par rapport aux moyens d'existence, livelihood position, dans la géographie du temps. Sur le plan théorique, et appliqué à la société rurale suédoise du XIX siècle. Evolution de la paysannerie et des structures agraires.
Mobility and fisherfolk livelihoods on Lake Victoria : implications for vulnerability and risk
The article uses the sustainable livelihood framework to identify the risks and vulnerabilities mitigated, or generated, by fisherfolk movement, and analyses how these sources of vulnerability affect livelihood outcomes, looking at the experiences
Dans ce numéro spécial consacré aux moyens d’existence flexibles des populations vivant en Asie, on trouvera les articles suivants : 1-Flexible livelihoods in a complex world : Asian lives and economies in transition ; 2-Chained to development
? Livelihoods and global value chains in the coffee-producing Toraja region of Indonesia ; 3-A rising tide in Bangladesh : livelihood adaptation to climate stress ; 4-Constructing risk: multi-scale change, livelihoods and vulnerability in the Mekong Delta
, Vietnam ; 5-‘Rising waters don't lift all boats’: a sustainable livelihood analysis of recursive cycles of vulnerability and maladaptation to flood risk in rural Bihar, India ; 6-The dynamic pathways of agrarian transformation in the Northeastern Thai–Lao
borderlands ; 7-An ecosystem services approach to sustainable livelihoods in the homegardens of Kandy, Sri Lanka ; 8-Social networks as livelihood strategies for small-scale traders on the Thai–Lao border ; 9-Transformation of fish corrals in Nha Phu Lagoon
, Vietnam: livelihood changes and implications ; 10-Resource development and the perpetuation of poverty in rural Laos.
in the livelihood of households in the Valley of Tlacolula, Oaxaca
In this study rural industry above all is analysed as a part of a livelihood strategy of households. Livelihood strategy most of the time exists of various activities among with besides different forms of agriculture, one or more non-agricultural
activities| besides local also extra-local activities and besides activities directed to the market also activities directed to selfsupport. So the livelihood strategies of rural households exist of a continuous weithting between different goals
Livelihood diversification and cropland use pattern in agro-pastoral mountainous region of eastern Tibetan Plateau
types of household have variety livelihood strategies; 2) Each livelihood strategy has its own impact on land use, mainly affecting land use type and land use intensification level; 3) Diversification into off-farm activities could be the key of building
sustainable livelihood and the essential approach of realizing sustainable land use in the region.
Livelihood shifts and gender performances : space and the negotiation for labor among East Africa's pastoralists
Ecology ; Farmer ; Gender ; Kenya ; Livelihood ; Livestock farming ; Performativity ; Political ecology ; Social geography
This article examines livelihood shifts and gender performances through space and the negotiation for labor among East Africa's pastoralists. The research demonstrates that the women and men interviewed are deeply aware of how space conveys
particular meanings during negotiations. In all instances, the effectiveness of each man and woman's performance cannot be understood outside of this spatial context. As pastoral livelihoods shift, the boundaries of what it means to be a Masai are pushed
Reconceptualising temporality in young lives : exploring young people's current and future livelihoods in AIDS-affected southern Africa
AIDS ; Educational level ; Health ; Household ; Lesotho ; Livelihood ; Livestock farming ; Malawi ; Social geography ; Temporality ; Young people
This paper explores links between the impacts of AIDS and young people's livelihood prospects in two villages, one in southern Malawi and the other in the mountains of Lesotho. Drawing on the concept of livelihood trajectories, it focuses
on the ways in which young people respond to both the immediate sustenance requirements of themselves and their households and their need to accrue assets for future livelihoods. . Beyond addressing empirical questions concerning the impacts of AIDS
, this article contributes to our understanding of how livelihoods are produced and to the conceptualisation of youth transitions as produced through the iteration of present and future.
Impact of farmer households’ livelihood assets on their options of economic compensation patterns for cultivated land protection
Agriculture ; Arable land ; China ; Chongqing ; Farmer ; Household ; Income ; Livelihood ; Social geography ; Village
This article examines the impact of farmer households’ livelihood assets in mesa and hilly areas of Chongqing on their options of economic compensation patterns for cultivated land protection. The results show that: 1) there is a spatial trend
that the higher the elevation, the less livelihood assets are. 2) that their options of economic compensation pattern vary from Chengdu Pattern to Foshan Pattern due to their difference in livelihood assets and difference in location. It concludes
that a compensation pattern system has been designed to meet the demands for farmer households mainly according to their shortage in livelihood assets.
The study examines the nature and extent of rural poverty, and to ascertain the relationship between rural material poverty and rural livelihoods among the peasants of Unzumbe. It was found that different wards were characterised by high population
Contribution of woodland products to rural livelihoods in the northeast of the Limpopo Province, South Africa
The value of woodland products to rural livelihood was investigated in six selected villages in the northeast of Limpopo. Results indicate that villagers obtain basic needs such as fuel wood, and construction poles as well as harvest medicine
Temporality of disasters : the politics of women's livelihoods after the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka
communities and women initially devised livelihood strategies. These reactions reveal the complex ways in which women continue to mediate and negociate everyday responses in the aftermath of a “naturel” disaster.
Island ; Livelihood ; Mobility ; Remittances ; Solomon Islands ; Space time ; Territorial strategy
the spatial mobility of Ontong Javans is linked to their livelihood strategies and to social mobility. Ontong Javans are highly mobile on a range of spatial and temporal scales. Mobility is shown to be especially linked to changes in livelihood opportunities
Poverty, land care, and sustainable livelihoods in hillside and mountain regions
In the run, households and local communities will attain livelihood security through their own ingenuity and with help from institutions and technologies. In the short run, however, we need to develop a better understanding of the causes of poverty
Negotiating public space for livelihoods : about risks, uncertainty and power in the urban poor’s everyday life
Bangladesh ; Dhaka ; Institution ; Livelihood ; Local market ; Power ; Public space ; Risk ; Social geography ; Street vendors ; Urban area ; Vulnerability
This paper discusses the changing geographies of risk and uncertainty with regard to the negotiations of access to public space for urban livelihoods in an environment where informal institutions dominate. A partly ethnographic account of everyday