Overview
- Discusses innovative livelihood and agricultural innovation adoption by farmers, including efforts to propagate organic farming
- Shows the impact of changing climate on crop yields and short- and long-term revenues of farmers with adequate incorporation of adaptive responses in Ghana and Nepal
- Assesses rural institutions, namely, village officers, neighborhood groups, village parliament and village development committees and community-based self-help initiatives to sustain decentralized rural development
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Decenttralized Rural Development
- Disasters/shocks
- Impacts of Climate Change and Adaptive Responses
- Innovative Livelihood and Agricultural Innovation
- Local Networking to Contain
- Smallholder Dairy Farming
- Vegetable Farming of Marginalized Farmers
- landscape/regional and urban planning
- climate change impacts
About this book
Sustainability of rural communities is threatened by a plethora of factors including climate change and disasters which interact in an intricate manner in making rural people vulnerable and poor. This book is the output of empirical research on communities and livelihood strategies in developing countries. It reveals how rural communities are functioning and earning their livelihoods by making the best use of the resources, local/internal or external/new and the combination of the two to counteract the various challenges they face, with the ultimate goal of becoming resilient to local or global shocks and sustaining that resilience. Local governance is identified as crucial in ensuring sustainable livelihoods as it ensures healthy collaboration between communities, on the one hand and civil society and those communities, on the other hand, in promoting self-sustaining development trajectories. Similarly, the role of social capital is not ignored as it brings in community drive and a sense of purpose, direction and solidarity among community members which facilitates problem solving in periods of crises and disasters.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Communities and Livelihood Strategies in Developing Countries
Editors: Keshav Lall Maharjan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54774-7
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54773-0Published: 24 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56379-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-54774-7Published: 29 May 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 178
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Sustainable Development, Agriculture, Quality of Life Research, Natural Hazards