Adaptation strategies must target those populations most vulnerable to global change and equip those unable to adapt—generally the poorest—with …
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A key aim of the Norwegian Development Fund is to increase the adaptive capacity of marginalised rural poor farmers and pastoralists in the South. …
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Non-farm earnings account for 35 to 50 per cent of rural household income across the developing world. Landless and near-landless households everywhere …
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The last two decades of the 20th century have been a period of change for sub-Saharan African economies. Structural Adjustment Programmes have triggered …
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Livelihoods in the rural South are becoming increasingly separated from farming and land. Non-farm opportunities have expanded and increased the levels …
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Discussions on how to improve urban or rural livelihoods are mostly based on disconnected ideas that examine urban and rural areas separately. Yet there …
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