Rural Livelihood Diversity in Developing Countries: Evidence and Policy Implications

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4486
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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Ellis, Frank
Date:	1999
Agency:	Overseas Development Institute, London
Series:	Natural Resource Perspectives, no. 40
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4486
Sector:	General & Multiple Resources
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Subject(s):	rural development--developing countries resource management--developing countries
Abstract:	"This paper examines livelihood diversification as a survival strategy of rural households in developing countries. Although still of central importance, farming on its own is increasingly unable to provide a sufficient means of survival in rural areas. The papers objectives are first, to increase awareness of livelihood diversification in approaches to rural development; second, to consider the interactions among diversification and poverty, farm productivity, natural resource management and gender relations in rural areas; and third, to advance the policy understanding of diverse rural livelihoods."

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