Livelihoods: income, enterprises and markets impinging on livelihoods

Publications

CEESP publications. Policy Matters, the journal of CEESP Policy Matters Issue No. 14, March 2006. Poverty, wealth and conservation.
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CEESP publications. Policy Matters Issue No. 12, September 2003. Special issue for the World Parks Congress. Community Empowerment for Conservation
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CEESP publications. Issue No. 10, September 2002. Special issue for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Sustainable Livelihoods and Co-management of Natural Resources.
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Macqueen, D., Bose, S., Bukula, S., Kazoora, C., Ousman, S., Porro, N. and Weyerhaeuser, H. (2006). Working together: forest-linked small and medium enterprise associations and collective action. IIED Gatekeeper Series No. 125. IIED, London, UK.
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Mayers, J. (2006). Poverty reduction through commercial forestry: What evidence? What prospects?. The Forests Dialogue, New Haven, USA.
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World Bank Forests Sourcebook. Practical Guidance for Sustaining Forests in Development Cooperation, on numerous topics of relevance for forest people’s livelihoods.
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USAID. 2002. Nature, Wealth, and Power: Emerging Best Practice for Revitalizing Rural Africa.

This publication is another valuable resource on livelihoods, which also address power issues: This document - Nature, Wealth, and Power (NWP) - is about rural development in Africa. It is a preliminary statement of lessons learned from more than 20 years of natural resource–based development in rural Africa. Twenty years ago, natural resource management programs took a predominantly technical approach to getting rural development moving and responding to perceived environmental crises. The limitations of this approach were subsequently revealed as projects failed to meet their objectives and be sustainable.
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Weblinks

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London, UK.
website: http://www.iied.org/
This IUCN website
includes many articles of relevance for livelihoods. See especially Volume 14
CIFOR’s PEN project:
website: http://www.cifor.org/pen
PEN stands for Poverty and Environment Network, and it represents a group of doctoral students from around the world, led by senior researchers from various universities and research institutions, who have incorporated a standard interview schedule into their dissertation research.
Rights and Resources Initiative:
website: http://www.rightsandresources.org/
This is a global initiative that seeks to improve local people’s rights and access to resources, including secure tenure.
SDC, Intercooperation and ODI site on poverty and wellbeing: http://www.poverty-wellbeing.net/
These institutions have developed a framework from which to address poverty and human well being that is straightforward and widely used.
Ken Chomitz’s At Loggerheads? Agricultural Expansion, Poverty Reduction, and Environment in the Tropical Forests
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The Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG): http://www.povertyandconservation.info/en/
is a forum for facilitating mutual learning between key stakeholders, from a range of backgrounds, on conservation-poverty linkages. The PCLG website is our key mechanism for sharing and dissemination of information and experience on conservation-poverty linkages. The site is centred on four key, fully searchable, databases: a bibliographic database; an organisations database; an initiatives database; and a case studies database.
The Learning for Sustainability site: http://learningforsustainability.net, has been substantially revised and updated over the past few months as a guide to on-line resources for government agency staff, NGOs and other community leaders working to support social learning and collective action as an underlying mechanism to address sustainability issues. A central section of this site links the reader to a range of guides, tools and checklists that can be drawn upon for guidance in this area to address issues such as participation and engagement. Other pages here highlight the lessons that have emerged from researchers and practitioners in different sectors. These include lessons from the HIV/AIDS sector, public health, and protected natural areas. They are shown on their different pages to highlight the fact that each sector is looking at similar human dimensions practice change lessons, and that the more we can learn across sectors the better. A new page in this section now covers tools, tips and techniques for facilitators and other social engagement specialists.