| Hot Topics - highlight rapidly emerging areas of livelihoods
policy and practice.
Hot
Topics are requested by, and produced in partnership with our partners and users.
If you would like to propose a Hot Topic, do let us know by emailing to livelihoods-connect@ids.ac.uk
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Food
Security, Hunger and Social Protection
Food
insecurity can range from temporary, localised food
shortages to protracted and large-scale famine. Chronic,
widespread poverty in some regions means millions of
people are permanently vulnerable to famine.
Food
security ensures reduction of that vulnerability. But
people vulnerable to food shortages and famine cannot
wait for longer term development programmes to bring
them out of poverty. Addressing food insecurity means
increasing food production and addressing the root causes
of vulnerability through a range of interventions, including
rural development, agricultural research, building livelihoods
and social protection. It also means addressing shortfalls
now, in the form of famine relief.
This
hot topic includes key readings,
links to organisations
working on food security, and related news
and events. Sub-themes of include: social
protection, climate change,
nutrition, rural economy
and famine relief. It also links across to other
relevant hot topics, such as Agriculture
and Renewable Resources.
... for more reports and papers see the Food
Security HoT Topic:
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Community
Led Total Sanitation
Community
Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is an innovative methodology
for mobilising communities to completely eliminate open
defecation. It is characterised by participatory facilitation,
community analysis and action, and no hardware subsidy.
In a matter of often just weeks, communities mobilise
themselves to construct latrines and achieve total sanitation.
This
Hot Topic shares lessons
from
projects promoting Community led total sanitation, forthcoming
events, research and policy
papers and a guide to key
organisations.
This
page is produced in partnership with the DFID Water
Energy and Minerals team.
... for more reports and papers see the homepage:
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Agriculture and Renewable
Natural Resources
Renewable
natural resources (including forests and aquatic resources)
and agriculture (RNRA) are fundamental to reducing poverty.
Accelerated agricultural growth, based on increasing
land and labour productivity, has been the cornerstone
of successful poverty reduction throughout history.
With increasing productivity, millions of poor people
will benefit through cheaper food and higher rural incomes.
Agricultural growth also stimulates economic diversification
to other activities where growth is generally faster
and labour productivity and wages are higher. It is
widely accepted that growth in other sectors cannot
match agriculture in achieving broad based poverty reduction
and stimulating wider economic growth.
This
Hot Topic shares lessons from
projects and events on agricultural issues, forthcoming
events, research and policy
papers and a guide to key
organisations.
This
page is produced in partnership with the DFID Renewable
Natural Resources and Agriculture (RNRA) team.
... for more reports and papers see the homepage:
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Migration
This
was a Hot Topic until November 2007 - now simmering
with less frquent updates.
Materials and discussions that outline the latest
work being done on migration and how SL contributes
towards this.
Includes background papers
on Migration and Development; Remittances;
outputs and papers from
the Dhaka conference on migration; and exciting
reports from DFID's Migration Seminars
on the links between SL and migration.
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for more reports and papers see the homepage:
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ICT4D
This
was a Hot Topic until November 2007 - now simmering
with less frquent updates.
How have Information Communications Technology
(ICT) contributed to sustainable livelihoods of
the rural poor? Through six country scoping studies
in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, a global literature
review and interviews with interested international
development agencies, a joint research project
steered and funded by InfoDev aims to provide
some answers.
Includes
lessons from people
centred ICT4D rural livelihoods projects, forthcoming
events, research
and policy papers
and our guide to key organisations
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for more reports and papers see the homepage:
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Urban
and Rural Change
This
was a Hot Topic until January 2006 - now simmering with less frquent
updates.
Urban and rural livelihoods are becoming increasingly interdependent.
It is important to understand these linkages in addressing the causes
of urban and rural povery, and address them through integrated policy
and practice.
Includes lessons from projects and
events bringing together urban and rural issues, forthcoming events,
research and policy papers and a guide
to key organisations.
This
page is produced in partnership with the DFID Urban and Rural Change
Team.
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for reports and papers see the home page:
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