Multiplex livelihoods in rural Africa: recasting the terms and conditions of gainful employment

By D. Bryceson. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 2002

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Determinant factors of livelihood diversification: Evidence from Ethiopia (2017, background): “Author and Bryceson (2002) reported that better-educated farm households were found to participant less in livelihood diversification activities compared to the uneducated farm households in rural sub-Saharan Africa countries.”
Gold digging careers in rural east Africa: small-scale miners' livelihood choices. (2010, background): “While some livelihood typologies have emerged, researchers have not generally identified regularized activity sequences and occupational patterns in their survey data and work histories (Bryceson, 2002b).”
Are Alternative Livelihood Projects Alleviating Poverty in Mining Communities? Experiences from Ghana (2009, background): “Several empirical studies (Barrett et al., 2001; Bryceson, 2002a; McCusker and Carr, 2006) confirm that because of these shocks and other challenges, in sub-Saharan Africa, ‘nonagricultural income diversification has been substituted in the search for muchneeded cash earnings’ (Bryceson, 2002b:…”