Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction Strategies in Four African Countries

By F. Ellis, H. Freeman. 2004

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Reflections on the Role of Agriculture in Pro-Poor Growth (2010, unknown): “Foster and Rosenzweig (2004) have underlined the importance for the generation of rural income of labor-intensive small-scale manufactures in India.”
Sustaining intensification of smallholder livestock systems in the tropics (2010, background): “Smallholder livestock keepers dominate crop–livestock systems, with livestock playing an essential role in highly diversified livelihood strategies that typically combine crops and livestock with off-farm activities (Ellis and Freeman, 2004; Deshingkar et al., 2008).”
Rural livelihoods and poverty reduction policies. (2005, unknown): “The research methods used and details of the fieldwork locations and research sites are provided in other sources (LADDER Research Team 2001; Ellis and Freeman 2004).”
Rural livelihood diversification and agricultural household welfare in Ghana (2011, background): “…from a predominantly agrarian economy into a diversified and productivity economy dominated by manufacturing and services („push‟ factors), others (Ellis and Freeman, 2004) attribute the signs to a distressed agricultural sector that is losing its labor force not as a consequence of…”
Livelihoods Strategies and Household Resilience to Food Insecurity: An Empirical Analysis to Kenya (2010, background): “…are still essential within social and economic research on poverty and food security, both as embedded in research strategies or as a research tool (Carter and May, 1997; Orr and Mwale, 2001; Barrett et al., 2001; Brown et al., 2006; Devereux, 2006; Ellis and Freeman, 2007; Babulo et al., 2008).”
Livelihoods and Rural Poverty Reduction in Kenya (2004, background): “If fishing is included as agriculture, these proportions become 46 and 54% respectively, and these are reasonably close to a 50:50 pattern that tends to characterise, in a broad way, contemporary rural livelihoods in the region (Ellis and Freeman, 2004).”
Participatory Forest Management in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania: Who Benefits? (2009, background): “2001, Ellis and Freeman 2007). A study by Lund and Treue (2008) in Mfyome village, found forest-based incomes that were around double those reported in this study for the very poor, poor and very rich.”
Linking agricultural adaptation strategies, food security and vulnerability: evidence from West Africa (2016, unknown): “In contrast, the more market-oriented Type II households have more income, which diminishes subsistence as the primary goal (Ellis and Freeman 2004): their priority becomes insuring sufﬁcient income levels.”