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1 January 2001
Risk and vulnerability have been rediscovered as key features of rural livelihoods and poverty, and are currently a focus of policy...
1 January 2001
Published by: Taylor and Francis
Twenty years after Poverty and Famines elaborated the entitlement approach as an innovative and holistic approach to famine analysis,...
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
More than 70 million people died in famines in the twentieth century. Stephen Devereux has compiled data from over 30 major famines and has assessed the success of some parts of the world, notably China, the Soviet Union, India and Bangladesh in apparently eradicating mass mortality food crises.
1 January 2000
A discussion paper for DFID Food insecurity in Ethiopia derives directly from dependence on undiversified livelihoods based on...
1 January 2000
Many of Zambia’s poorest and most isolated communities live and farm around the floodplains in Western Province. Recurrent droughts...
5 May 1999
Published by: IDS
The New Poverty Agenda, along with many other neo-liberal orthodoxies of the 1980s and early 1990s is withering away as rapid political and ideological shifts take place at the global level and within the domain of international development policy. Whilst this IDS Bulletin celebrates that fact, it also urges caution.
25 January 1999
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Poor households in sub-Saharan Africa are of necessity adjusting to a bewildering array of radical changes in the policy environment within which they struggle to construct viable livelihoods.
IDS was commissioned in by the Department of International Development Malawi, to provide advice on the design phase of the Malawi National Safety Nets Programme.
25 January 1997
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Malawi is characterised in food security discourse as a paradigmatic case of incipient malthusian crisis in rural Africa. Malawians enjoy few employment alternatives to agriculture, economic liberalisation has created new patterns of opportunity for some but increased marginalisation for others.
1 January 1996
Published by: IDS
This paper addresses some conceptual difficulties of applying the entitlement approach to contexts such as common property regimes, where overlapping institutions or groups of individuals all exert valid claims over a single resource endowment, and where claims on resources are socially sanctioned rather than legally enforceable.