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Agriculture and Natural Resources - Risk and Vulnerability

Risk is assessed against the likelihood of shocks and stresses occurring and their potential severity. Vulnerability is the degree of exposure to risk and the capacity of households or individuals to prevent, mitigate or cope with its effects. Agriculture-related risk can be categorised into four main groups – those related to: a) market performance, b) input and output market access, c) labour markets and d) environment-related factors.Agriculture Hot Topic


  Key Papers
Rural Livelihoods, Poverty, and the Millennium Development Goals: Evidence from Ethiopian Survey Data. R. Bluffstone, M. Yesuf, B. Bushie, D. Damite. Environment for Development Discussion Paper Series 2008 PDF NEW
Exploring Rural Livelihoods in Afghanistan: A Study of 10 Villages in Dai Kundi Province I. Nyborg, J. Akramy and A. Gotehus. Noragric Report No. 40, 2008 PDF 2.5MB
Rural Livelihoods in Armenia D. Bezemer and Z. Lerman 2003. Discussion Paper No. 4.03. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem PDF
Microfinance for Protecting the Vulnerable in Rural Uzbekistan M. Matul and D. Szubert 2005. MFC Spotlight Note 16 PDF
Addressing Risk and Vulnerability Constraints on Agricultural Growth DFID Hot Topic Summary(3 pages) Word
Policy Options for Increasing the Contribution of Social Protection to Food Security. Stephen Devereux 2003 for the Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa ODI PDF
The Search for Synergies between Social Protection and the Productive Sectors: the Agriculture Case. J. Farrington, R. Slater and R. Holmes 2004 ODI Working Paper 232. PDF (See also Natural Resource Perspectives 91 PDF)
Recognising and Addressing Risk and Vulnerability Constraints to Pro-poor Agricultural Growth Natural Resources and Agriculture Team (DFID) with John Farrington (ODI) Oct 2004. PDF
Market Performance
Rural Vulnerability in Serbia L. Ersado (2006) World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4010 HTML
The Vulnerability of Self-Help: Women and Microfinance in South India K. Kalpana (2008) IDS Working Paper PDF
Resource-Poor Farmers in South India: On the Margins or Frontiers of Globalisation. M. Aggarwal. World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER). 2006.
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Land Rights
Land Restitution and Livelihoods: The #Khomani San. Farm Africa Working Paper No. 6. Dr Alastair Bradstock. 2007 PDF
Reclaiming Our Lives. HIV and AIDS, Women's Land and Property Rights, and Livelihoods in Southern and East Africa. Narratives and Responses. Edited by Kaori Izumi. FAO; HSRC Press; Global Coalition on Women and Aids. 2006 HTML
Improving Gender Equity in Access to Land. S. Nichols; D Palmer; P. Munro-Faure. FAO. 2006 HTML
Environmental Related Factors
Climate Change, Agricultural Policy and Poverty Reduction-How Much Do We Know? Rachel Slater, Leo Peskett, Eva Ludi and David Brown. ODI. 2007  HTML
Global Warming and Agriculture: New Country Estimates Show Developing Countries Face Declines in Agriculture Productivity. William Cline.Center for Global Development. 2007. HTML
How Will Agriculture Adapt to a Shifting Climate?
H. Fritschel, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006
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Strengthening disaster risk management in the agricultural sector in Bangladesh Centre for Environmental & Geographic Information Services, Bangladesh 2005 PDF
Pastoralism
Climate Change and Pastoralists: Investing in People to Respond to Adversity. Sustainable Development Opinion, IIED. C. Hesse, L. Cotula. 2006. PDF NEW
Improving Drought Response in Pastoral Areas of Ethiopia S. Pantuliano and M. Wekesa, Humanitarian Policy Group and Overseas Development Institute, 2008 PDF
Too Many People, Too Few Livestock: Pastoralism in Crisis? Future Agriculture Consortium. HTML
Pastoralism: Drylands' Invisible Asset?
C. Hesse, C.J MacGregor, Drylands Programme, IIED, 2006.
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Gender
Managing Assets and Vulnerability Contexts: Vistas of Gendered Livelihoods of Adivasi Women in South India S. Arun, Brooks World Poverty Institute, 2008. PDF
Who Owns the Farm? Rural Women's Acccess to Land and Livestock. J. Grace, Afghanistan Research Evaluation Unit, 2005. PDF

Agriculture, Trade Negotiations and Gender. Z. Garcia, FAO, 2006. PDF

HIV/AIDS, Gender Inequality and the Agricultural Sector: Guidelines for Incorporating HIV/AIDS and Gender Considerations into Agricultural Programming in High Incidence Countries. E. Wiegers, Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD), 2004. PDF

A Row To Hoe: The Gender Impact Of Trade Liberalization On Our Food System, Agricultural Markets And Women's Human Rights. A. Spieldoch. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. 2007. PDF

The Negative Impact That Agriculture Rules on Trade and Finance Have on Women, Families and Communities:  A Case Study From the Dairy Industry in Kenya. E.Wachira. The Gender and Trade Network in Africa. 2006. PDF

Are We Not Peasants Too? Land Rights and Women’s Claims in India. Bina Agarwal. SEEDS. 2002 PDF
Achieving food security What next for sub-Saharan Africa? id21 Insights Issue 61, March 2006 HTML
  HIV and AIDS
HIV/AIDS and Enabling Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth Annabel Muelder, OECD. Issues paper for the session on Chronic Poverty in POVNET Agriculture. June 2004. PDF
HIV/AIDS and the Agricultural Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa: Anticipating the Consequences T.S. Jayne, Marcela Villarreal, Prabhu Pingali, and Günter Hemrich, FAO, 2005 PDF
Responding to HIV/AIDS in Agriculture and Related Activities Rachel Slater and Steve Wiggins, ODI Natural Resources Perspectives March 2005 PDF
Drug Production
Evidence from the Field: Understanding Changing Levels of Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan. David Mansfield; Adam Pain. AREU. 2007 PDF



  Projects and Lessons
Land Rights in Africa
A collection of Oxfam  and their partner's work including literature reviews, case studies, and evaluations. HTML
Risk and Vulnerability Theme Discussions and Reports from DFID consultation on the role of agriculture in growth and poverty reduction (14 April - 28 May, 2004) HTML
POVNET - DAC Network on Poverty Reduction The Task Team on Agriculture, led by the United States, aims to develop a shared understanding of emerging issues underlying the role of agriculture in pro-poor growth. Key areas of work include: access to markets, risk/vulnerability, smallholders and changes in the value chain. Agriculture team homepage HTML Presentations and papers HTML
Food Price Risk Management Commissioned work captures 'best thinking' on this politically sensitive issue. It identifies emerging and innovative instruments to manage extreme price movements, and thereby cushion vulnerable households against consumption shocks without constraining growth. Concept note PDF Full list of papers HTML



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