Impact Initiative - Urban/Rural: Recent submissions
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Eureka and Beyond: Mining's Impact on African Urbanisation
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)This collection brings separate literatures on mining and urbanisation together at a time when both artisanal and large-scale mining are expanding in many African economies. While much has been written about contestation ... -
Unearthing Treasure and Trouble: Mining as an Impetus to Urbanisation in Tanzania
(2012)Despite an abundance of mineral wealth and an ancient history of gold trading, Tanzania is a relative latecomer to the experience of being a mineral-dominated national economy. Both the British colonial state and Nyerere's ... -
Contested Paradigms of 'Viability' in Redistributive Land Reform: Perspectives from Southern Africa
(PLAAS, 2009)The origins of the hegemonic, ‘large-scale commercial farm’ version of viability and its influence on policy debates on land redistribution in South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe is located in the context of competing ... -
Resource Theft in Tropical Forest Communities: Implications for Non-timber Management, Livelihoods, and Conservation
(Resilience Alliance, 2011)Increased devolution of forest ownership and management rights to local control has the potential to promote both conservation and livelihood development in remote tropical regions. Such shifts in property rights, however, ... -
Land Use Patterns and the Scale of Adoption of Agroforestry in the Rural Landscapes of Padma Floodplain in Bangladesh
(A B Academic Publishers, 2008)This research was conducted in six typical villages of Northern Bangladesh. A sample of 170 farmers was selected. Research indicates that the farmers practising agroforestry own small farms and the income of agroforestry ... -
Can Openness Mitigate the Effects of Weather Shocks? Evidence from India's Famine Era
(American Economic Association, 2010)A weakening dependence on rain-fed agriculture has been a hallmark of the economic transformation of countries throughout history. Rural citizens in developing countries today, however, remain highly exposed to fluctuations ... -
Initiatives of Tropical Agroforestry to Sustainable Agriculture: A Case Study of Capasia Village, Northern Bangladesh
(2011)A relatively large percentage of the population in Bangladesh lives under the poverty line and is affected by the country's degrading natural resources. Agroforestry has been seen as one of the few options to lift people ... -
An Economic Evaluation of Multistrata Agroforestry System Practiced by Traditional Cultivators in Northern Bangladesh
(Academic Journals, 2007)Agroforestry is an important category of agriculture that provides potential benefit to farmers, communities and society at large with a wide array of forest-related goods and services. In this study, we evaluated the ... -
Economic Viability of Mushrooms Cultivation to Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh
(2008)Mushroom is an important vegetable usually grows in the forest with its nutritive and medicinal value. It can also be cultivated domestically in a small scale by landless people. The climate of Bangladesh is highly favourable ... -
Socio-economics of Using Poles for Constructing Houses in the Congo Basin
(International Formulae Group, 2011)Increasingly, poor people in sub-Saharan Africa are affected by three dimensions of poverty, these being hunger, thirst and living without a decent shelter. This study focused on the latter dimension of poverty and ... -
Depleting Tropical Forest at a Landscape Scale: Finding Solutions for Bangladesh
(2011)Drastic deforestation is a major problem of Bangladesh which is contributing to negative downstream impacts on the environment. To address this problem various measures should be taken at different scales. The main objective ... -
Extent and Consequences of Tropical Forest Degradation: Successive Policy Options for Bangladesh
(David Publishing, 2011)This paper is conceived at a time when new paradigms are sought for the development of a framework to deal with the problem of forest resources degradation. Deforestation in Bangladesh, has reached an alarming rate in ... -
Deforestation and the Limited Contribution of Forests to Rural Livelihoods in West Africa: Evidence from Burkina Faso and Ghana
(Springer Verlag, 2012)Forest degradation in West Africa is generally thought to have negative consequences on rural livelihoods but there is little overview of its effects in the region because the importance of forests to rural livelihoods has ... -
The indignity of the Welfare Reform Act
(CPAG Ltd, 2012)At the 101st session of its conference in June this year, the International Labour Organization agreed Recommendation 202 on national social protection floors. Esoteric though it sounds, this sets standard that has the ... -
Adding to the shame of poverty: the public, politicians and the media
(CPAG Ltd, 2014)The denigration of people in poverty is not new. It has been evident since at least the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII when the Tudor state assumed de facto responsibility for the care of ‘paupers’, and ... -
From field to factory: tracing transformations in bonded labour in the Tiruppur region, Tamil Nadu
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)Taking a historical perspective this paper explores the phasing out of ‘bonded’ labour in agriculture and its reappearance in the village-based powerloom industry in the Tiruppur region of Tamil Nadu, India. Focussing ... -
Cost of abortions in Zambia: a comparison of safe abortion and post abortion care
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)Unsafe abortion is a significant but preventable cause of maternal mortality. Although induced abortion has been legal in Zambia since 1972, many women still face logistical, financial, social, and legal obstacles to ... -
Labouring for global markets: Conceptualising labour agency in global production networks
(Elsevier, 2013)This article starts with the recognition that labour has received less than its fair share of empirical and analytical attention in scholarship on global production networks. Little is known about how jobs for export markets ... -
MGNREGA in Tamil Nadu: A Story of Success and Transformation?
(Wiley, 2014)Social protection has emerged as a key driver of development policy at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is widely considered a ‘good thing’ that has the potential not only to alleviate poverty and vulnerability, ... -
NREGA and the Return of Identity Politics in Western Tamil Nadu, India
(2011)Journal article on NREGA and its impacts on changing rural and urban social relations and politics in the Tiruppur region of Tamil Nadu, India.