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Livestock, vulnerability, and poverty dynamics in India

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Title Livestock, vulnerability, and poverty dynamics in India
 
Creator Akter, S.
Farrington, John
Deshingkar, P.
Freeman, H.A.
 
Subject POVERTY
ECONOMIC SITUATION
 
Description The focus of this study is to identify the livelihood activities that produce the major share of household income as well as to identify the livelihood pathways and strategies, and the role of livestock in these activities and strategies over a six year period. The paper is organized as follows. Section one is Introduction; Section 2 describes the methodology and data. Section 3 examines the extent of movements into and out of poverty amongst the sample households. Sections 4 and 5 describe the extent of destitution, vulnerability, viability and sustainability in connection with livelihood pathways. Section 6 examines the factors associated with economic/poverty status. Section 7 summarises the role of livestock in these livelihood connections. Finally, the paper draws some policy conclusions and recommendations and discusses the future direction of research.
 
Date 2009-12-29T13:46:52Z
2009-12-29T13:46:52Z
2008
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Akter, S.; Farrington, J.; Deshingkar, P.; Freeman, A. Overseas Development Inst., London (UK), ILRI, Nairobi (Kenya). Targeting and Innovation. 2008. Livestock, vulnerability, and poverty dynamics in India. ILRI Discussion Paper 10. Nairobi (Kenya): ILRI.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/280
 
Language en
 
Relation ILRI Discussion Paper;10
 
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Publisher ILRI