The limited body of literature addressing the livelihood of citizens in de facto states presents questions of how inhabitants of these 'sovereignty limbo' spaces live their everyday lives. While previous research on de facto states has extensively documented the political proces…
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Coal mining carries significant impacts for surrounding livelihood practices. Yet, in order to explain how specific impacts become grounded within a particular community, attention must be given to the complex assemblage of socio-political and economic forces operating at the lo…
The present thesis is an investigation of the patterns and rationale for natural resource and rangeland management practiced by men and by women of a pastoral community, changes in the patterns and rationales, and the impact caused by external and internal forces. In addition, b…
The globalization surge, together with an economic push in Bangladesh for international revenue earning, resulted in the emergence of an export-oriented assembling-manufacturing garment sector based on women's “cheap” labour. Livelihoods of these women labourers from poverty-str…
The response of small scale agricultural producers in the Philippines to livelihood threats arising from market integration has received less attention than responses to other threats. The ability of agricultural producers to respond to changes in their production environment is…
Increasing urbanisation has increased waste generation. This has led to an increase in waste being left uncollected in certain areas of low-income countries. With the inability of municipal authorities to provide the required collection services, there has been the emergence of …
Microfinance was rapidly hailed as a poverty alleviation tool by development agencies, researchers and practitioners. Despite the increasing capacity of MFIs to manage their financial sustainability, impact studies available report disappointingly low social achievements. Social…
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, 2002) estimates that 80 percent of the developing world, including some 60 million indigenous people, relies on non-timber forest products (NTFP) for their nutritional, health, material, and income needs. The factors tha…
Climate change is projected to disproportionately affect arid and semi-arid regions of the world, including the African Sahel. Niger, a Sahelian country and one of the poorest countries in the world, is home to an estimated 1.5 million pastoralists, those whose livelihood is bas…
This study argues that the sensory order employed during everyday activities deepens our understanding of local people’s relations with the environment. This study was conducted in Larabanga, Ghana, employing anthropology of the senses and phenomenology. The study reveals that p…