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Food Security
Information Communication and technology for Development (ICT4D)
Agriculture
Non- English Language Materials - Nepali
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Issue
No 88, February 2008
Keeping you informed of developments in sustainable livelihoods,
with news, views, reports and experiences from Livelihoods Connect
and our subscribers.
The Livelihoods Network is a trusting environment in which to stimulate, challenge and share with the goal of improving practice and influence in the area of Sustainable Livelihoods thinking.To learn more about the Livelihoods Network, see: http://www.livelihoods.org/Network/Network.html. We are pleased to share our 3rd Annual workshop report, see http://www.livelihoods.org/Network/members.html#3. If you have any questions regarding our Livelihoods Network, please do contact us at livelihoods-connect@ids.ac.uk
Next month's email bulletin focuses on the theme of Markets and Livelihoods.
Key
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On the Links between Violent Conflict and Household Poverty: How Much Do We Really Know?
Patricia Justino (2007)
This MICROCON Working Paper makes use of new micro-level research findings on the relationship between poverty and conflict to propose a framework to understand how violent conflict can lead to or exacerbate household poverty.
Vulnerability and Social Protection in Malawi
Stephen Devereux; Bob Baulch; Ian Macauslan; Alexander Phiri; Rachel Sabates-Wheeler (2006)
This paper argues that social protection and livelihood promotion measures, together with an enabling environment, are central to addressing rising vulnerability in Malawi.
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Community-managed Rice Banks: Lessons from Laos
Through an investigation of rice banks in South-East Asia as a means of addressing seasonal food crises facing poor communities, lessons have been identified that poorest don't benefit unless procedures: are compatible with community capacity; are simple and easy to use; use local language and have been developed with the community's active involvement.
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Climate Change, Agricultural Policy and Poverty Reduction - How Much Do We Know?
This paper traces the likely impacts of climate changes through changes in the quality of the physical asset base, access to assets, and impacts on grain production and on agricultural growth more generally.
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Improving the Analysis of Food Insecurity. Food Insecurity Measurement, Livelihoods Approaches and Policy: Applications in FIVIMS
The strengths of livelihoods approaches i.e. usefulness in assessing, monitoring and mapping food insecurity and vulnerability are also the source of their major limitations.This study highlights that governments find it difficult to incorporate multi-dimensional analysis when programmes are organised sectorally through agencies. |
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Bootstraps, Slingshots and Angels
Based on interviews with participants of the Catalysing Access to [information and communication technologies] ICTs in Africa programme (CATIA) from civil society and private sector, the reasons for successes and challenges that the programme has faced in the past two-and-a-half years are uncovered.
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Multistakeholder Partnership in ICT4D: A Case Study of Village Phone Programme in Bangladesh
The Village Phone Programme, a partnership initiative between the private sector, microfinance institutions, not-profit organisations and local women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh is aimed at using the incidence of low teledensity to promote livelihoods for poor rural women.The programme now offers affordable cellular telephone service to 70 million rural people in 50 thousand villages in Bangladesh.
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Village Phone Training
Grameen Foundation is organising a Village Phone Training programme from April 22 to April 24, 2008 in Bacolod City, Philippines.The training provides an opportunity to understand the tools needed to successfully implement a Village Phone programme. |
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Land Restitution and Livelihoods: The #Khomani San
Research results find that the #Khomani San, despite living in one of the remotest rural areas of South Africa, have livelihoods more in common with poor households in urban environments.Their asset holdings are low and what few they own are largely unproductive.
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The Growing Demand for Livestock: Will Policy and Institutional Changes Benefit Poor People?
This paper explores the impact on the poor of the increase in global demand for meat and milk and the many policies that promote international trade in livestock and livestock products.
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Crossing Borders: Evaluating the Impact of Remittances on Development in Latin America
Latin America is currently the top remittance receiving region in the world and with an annual growth rate of over 15% in the last 15 years.This one day panel discussion will evaluate the impact of remittances on development in Latin America.
Date: 11 March 2008. Location: Canning House, London, SW1X 8PJ, UK.
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Migration & Development Linkage in Sri Lanka: A Post-Tsunami and Civil Conflict Approach
This report by Andrea Gallina from Roskilde University explores the impact of the Tsunami and civil conflict on migration and development in Sri Lanka.In the 1980's labour migration became an organised government strategy to both alleviate pressures on the local labour market and to receive foreign currency in the form of workers' remittances. |
Migration & Development Linkage in Ecuador
What is the impact of 2.5 million Ecuadorians corresponding to 20 percent of the population who live abroad?Andrea Gallina from Roskilde University investigates how their remittances represented 5.8 percent of GDP in 2003 and were higher than the export revenues from bananas, cocoa, shrimps, tuna fish and fish, put together and second only to oil revenues.
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| Linking Mine Action and Development
The use of livelihoods framework to assess the impacts of mine clearance has been shown to to highlight the wider context in which the laying of mines and contamination with explosive remants of war has affected communities.It encourages integrated thinking about the benefits of demining and the broader development opportunities and constraints.
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Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) - Updated
Several new documents are available from the Chars Livelihoods Programme in North West Bangladesh. These documents range from exploring markets, asset transfers as well as project progress and recommendations.
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| This WWF project demonstrates how the Kanchanjungha Conservation Area of Eastern Nepal has been successful in reducing vulnerability and promoting livelihoods through a community managed livestock insurance programme.The report is available in Nepali with an English summary. |
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The 2008 SEED Awards: Call for Submissions
The 2008 SEED Awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development has put out a call for submissions for their SEED Initiative.
Deadline: 16 March 2008. |
Water, Land and People: Voices and Insights from Three Continents - A learning initiative implemented in Bolivia, Mali and India
This SDC study is aimed at sharing and deepening the knowledge base on development strategies and policies with regard to Integrated Water Resource Management with emphasis on the aspect Water for Food.
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The Growing Demand for Livestock: Will Policy and Institutional Changes Benefit Poor People?
The latest issue of 1d21 insights from the Institute of Development Studies looks at the impact on the poor of increasing global demand for meat and milk and policies that promote international trade in livestock and livestock products. |
Development Marketplace 2008
World Bank seeks proposals from development innovators-civil society groups, social entrepreneurs, private foundations, government agencies, academia and the private-on the theme of Sustainable Agriculture for Development for the 2008 Global Development Marketplace competition (DM2008).
Deadline: 21 March 2008
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Concern - Updated
Targeting the Extreme Poor: Field Experience from Dimla, Bangladesh
PLA notes that discuss the challenges of implementing an Integrated Rural Development Project with extreme poor living in the environmentally vulnerable and remote areas of Bangladesh.
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Livelihoods Based Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction
Three day workshop from 11 to 13 June in Toronto, Canada that uses the livelihoods approach to understand and interpret the linkages between development and disaster management practise.
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June 2008 |
Sustainable Livelihoods Approach - Approaches to Poverty Reduction
Three day course organised by Acroatics Ltd at University of Reading targeted at practitioners, consultants and advisers from development agencies and NGOs wanting to embrace the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach.
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31 March - 2 April 2008
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Livelihoods Coordinator, World Concern
World Concern is seeking a professional who understands general food security needs, local market systems and agricultural issues amongst rural populations, and is able to determine the most appropriate interventions for the circumstances for displaced populations in Eastern Chad.
Location: Chad
Deadline: 29 Feb 2008 |
Social Development Manager, Chars Livelihoods Programme
The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) is seeking a female Social Development Manager with international development and management experience.CLP aims to improve the livelihood security of the very poorest people living in the riverine areas of north-west Bangladesh.
Location: Bangladesh
Deadline: 8 March 2008 |
Communications Officer, Future Agricultures Consortium
Future Agricultures Consortium at Institute of Development Studies has an exciting opportunity for communications officer to join the team. The officer will combine strong interpersonal, writing and website development skills with the vision, networking skills and entrepreneurial ability to develop and implement a highly-effective communications strategy that contributes to the success of the Consortium Location: Sussex, UK
Deadline: 29 Feb 2008 |
Livelihoods Coordinator, CHF International
CHF International is recruiting additional staff to support ongoing operations and expansion of their income-generation / livelihoods component of their programme in Dafur.
Location: Darfur, Sudan
Deadline: Open
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