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New
experience and forecasts from DFID funded research asks if
systems approach to research can help in creating anti-poverty
benefits for natural resource based livelihoods?
Most
of the world’s poor are found in rural areas of poor countries
and projections indicate that this is unlikely to change in
the next 20 years. The linked variables of low expectation
of life at birth, high infant and child mortality, high exposure
to disease and HIV/AIDS, high levels of food insecurity, exposure
to shock from natural disasters, economic downturns, or conflict,
limited opportunities for salaried employment, and inadequate
public sector service provision will continue to be associated
with poverty, as traditionally defined in terms of weak assets
and low incomes.
A
new paper from DFID's Natural Resource Systems Programme addresses
a major challenge for the natural resource science community,
namely: given the obduracy of poverty and the complexity and
vulnerability of poor peoples’ livelihood systems, how can
systems research create potential benefits for partly or wholly
natural resource based livelihoods?
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