A quantitative analysis of poverty and livelihood profiles: The case of rural Rwanda
By An Ansoms, A. McKay. 2010
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The paper applies a quantitative methodology to study poverty and livelihood profiles on the basis of a large set of variables. It takes the context of post-conflict rural Rwanda for a case study. By means of exploratory tools (i.e. principal component and cluster analysis), it combines variables that capture natural, physical, human, financial and social resources together with environmental factors to identify household groups with varying livelihoods. The paper further explores how these clusters differ with regards the incidence of poverty, livelihood strategies and their respective crop preferences. The paper concludes that Rwandan rural policies should adopt distinct and appropriate interventions for impoverished peasant groups, each having their own particular livelihood profiles.
Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science
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- Household Livelihood Strategies and Dependence on Agriculture in the Mountainous Settlements in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China (2015, unknown): “household [8,9].”
- Household Livelihood Strategies and Implication for Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas of Central Nepal (2017, methodology): “However, this study used SLF with a particular focus on three aspects of the framework: livelihood asset, livelihood strategy, and outcome (Figure 1).”
- De-mystifying family farming: Features, diversity and trends across the globe (2015, background): “The situation is especially critical in densely-populated countries such as Rwanda, where average farm size is as small as 0.1 ha per adult equivalent while the majority of households depend on farming (Ansoms and McKay, 2010; Bucagu et al., 2014).”