INTD 200 Chapter Notes -Participatory Rural Appraisal, Pentagon, Food Security
5 Dec 2012
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Assets-mediating processes-activities" framework: poverty reduction, sustainability livelihood strategies. Originates from: vulnerability and famines, analysis of poverty-environment interactions, livelihood systems approach to gender analysis, the asset vulnerability approach to urban poverty reduction, research on sustainable rural livelihoods. Regard asset status of the poor as fundamental to understanding the options open to them, the strategies they adopt for survival and their vulnerability to adverse trends and events. Believe poverty policy should be about raising the asset status of the poor or enabling existing assets that are idle to be used productively. Useful: micro policies, tracing local impact of macro policies. A framework for the analysis of rural livelihoods. It is the rural household that is taken as the main social unit to which the framework is applied. Secure livelihoods are closely connected to substitution capabilities amongst assets and activities. Asset poverty and asset substitutability are both important factors in poverty reduction and sustainability. Assets both facilitate and are facilitated by diversification.
