Sustainable poverty reduction in less-favoured areas
Through the study of less-favoured areas in Africa, Latin America, and South and East Asia, development pathways allowing for the careful adjustment of resource use strategies at the field, farm-household and village level are explored.
Print Book, English, ©2007
CABI, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK, ©2007
xii, 472 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9781845932770, 9781845932787, 1845932773, 1845932781
85162026
1: Designing and evaluating alternatives for more sustainable natural resource management 2: Dimensions of vulnerability of livelihoods 3: Market imperfections 4: Rural development and sustainable land use 5: Resource use efficiency on own and sharecropped plots in Northern Ethiopia 6: Food Security 7: Changing gender roles in household food security 8: Does social capital matter in vegetable markets? 9: Making markets work for the poor: the challenge in the age of globalisation 10: Market access, agricultural productivity and allocative efficiency 11: Land and labour market participation decisions under imperfect markets 12: Land and labour allocation decisions in the shift from subsistence to commercial agriculture 13: Effects of deregulation of the rice market on farm prices in China 14: Consequences of abolition of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement import quotas on the apparel industry of Bangladesh 15: Poverty targeting with heterogeneous endowments 16: Less-favoured areas: looking beyond agriculture towards ecosystem services 17: Livelihood strategies, policies and sustainable poverty reduction in LFAs: a dynamic perspective