Communities and Livelihood Strategies in Developing Countries

✍ Scribed by Keshav Lall Maharjan (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Japan
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 200
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Sustainability of rural communities is threatened by a plethora of factors including climate change and disasters which interact in an intricate manner in making rural people vulnerable and poor. This book is the output of empirical research on communities and livelihood strategies in developing countries. It reveals how rural communities are functioning and earning their livelihoods by making the best use of the resources, local/internal or external/new and the combination of the two to counteract the various challenges they face, with the ultimate goal of becoming resilient to local or global shocks and sustaining that resilience. Local governance is identified as crucial in ensuring sustainable livelihoods as it ensures healthy collaboration between communities, on the one hand and civil society and those communities, on the other hand, in promoting self-sustaining development trajectories. Similarly, the role of social capital is not ignored as it brings in community drive and a sense of purpose, direction and solidarity among community members which facilitates problem solving in periods of crises and disasters.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Communities and Livelihood Strategies: An Overview....Pages 1-11
Climate Change Impact on Revenue of Major Food Crops in Ghana: Structural Ricardian Cross-Sectional Analysis....Pages 13-32
Climate Variables and Their Impacts on Yield of Food Crops in Makwanpur and Ilam Districts of Nepal....Pages 33-47
Adoption of Improved Rice Varieties in the Tarai Region of Nepal....Pages 49-64
Effects of Environmental Factors on Cattle Milk Production Among Smallholder Households in Ala-Buka, Kyrgyzstan....Pages 65-82
Farmers’ Perception on Impact of Organic Farming on Yield and Income of Vegetables: A Case Study in Kathmandu Valley and Chitwan District of Nepal....Pages 83-96
Riverbed Vegetable Farming for Enhancing Livelihoods of People: A Case Study in the Tarai Region of Nepal....Pages 97-108
Income Generation Through People’s Participation: Kitchen Gardening Practices of Three Marginalized Bagdi Villages in Bangladesh....Pages 109-127
Post Mount Merapi Eruption Recovery of Smallholder Dairy Farming: A Case Study of Disaster Management in Indonesia....Pages 129-142
Capacity of Rural Institutions in Implementing Decentralized Development in Indonesia: Case of Three Villages in Purbalingga District, Central Java Province....Pages 143-167
Erratum....Pages E1-E1
Back Matter....Pages 169-178

✦ Subjects

Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Sustainable Development; Agriculture; Quality of Life Research; Natural Hazards

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