Livelihood Strategies in the Rural Kenyan Highlands

By Douglas R. Brown, Emma C. Stephens, J. Ouma, F. Murithi, Christopher B. Barrett. 2006

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Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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4. R. Babatunde
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3. Ø. Nielsen
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6. Marrit van den Berg
7. Marco D'Errico
8. Abayineh Amare

Citations in the corpus

• Household income strategies and natural disasters: Dynamic livelihoods in rural Nicaragua (2010, background): “As our data cover a relatively large sample of randomly selected households, we can assume that the cumulative plots of per capital consumption densities for each livelihood-strategy group consistently approximate the consumption distribution facing households engaged in this strategy (Brown et al.,”
• Factors influencing the intensity of market participation by smallholder farmers: A case study of rural and peri-urban areas of Kenya (2009, background): “This is expected to contribute towards relaxing some of the barriers that often hinder households from adopting remunerative livelihood strategies (Brown et al., 2006).”
• Determinants of livelihood diversification strategies: The case of smallholder rural farm households in Debre Elias Woreda, East Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia (2015, methodology): “There are different methods of identifying livelihood strategies; but most commonly, economists group households’ livelihood strategies by shares of income earned from different sectors of the rural economy (Brown et al., 2006).”
• Determinants of smallholder farmers’ decision to adopt adaptation options to climate change and variability in the Muger Sub basin of the Upper Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia (2017, background): “If the household maximizes its utility defined over income realizations, then the household’s choice is simply an optimal allocation of its asset endowment to choose adaptation strategy that maximizes its utility [40].”
• Patterns of income diversification in rural Nigeria: determinants and impacts. (2009, background): “The second is the asset-based approach, which analyzes income diversification behavior by direct examination of the household’s asset endowment (CARTER and BARRETT, 2006; BROWN et al., 2006).”
• Household Livelihood Strategies and Implication for Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas of Central Nepal (2017, methodology): “Several previous studies have used either per capita income [10], household consumption expenditure [21], or mean total income [9] as a proxy to evaluate welfare.”
• Quantifying rural livelihood strategies in developing countries using an activity choice approach (2013, methodology): “This supports existing quantitative livelihood strategy findings (Brown et al., 2006; Ellis and Freeman, 2005; Jansen et al., 2006; van den Berg, 2009) as well as more qualitative findings (e.g., Homewood, 2005).”
• 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).”