Analysis of livelihood security: A case study in the Kali-Khola watershed of Nepal

Bhandari, Betman; Grant, Miriam

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.07.010

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“…To comprehend whether poor people's livelihood is sustainable or not, the Sustainable Livelihood Analysis Frameworks (SLF) have been proposed [34][35][36]. Several studies related to rural livelihood have used SLF [14,16,17,19,23,29]. SLF encompasses five interacting elements namely; vulnerability context, asset pentagon, mediating factors, livelihood strategy, and outcomes that jointly create the livelihood of poor people [34].…”

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“…As in other developing countries, rural areas in Nepal are also undergoing rapid socio-economic and environmental transitions in recent years which has brought newer opportunities and challenges for rural livelihoods [27,28]. Resultantly, rural households are trying to broaden their household economy either to survive or to generate additional income to secure livelihood [29,30]. This change, however, has resulted in commendable progress in reducing overall poverty from 42% in 2004 to 25% in 2011, but with very low progress in the rural areas of hills and mountains in Nepal [26].…”

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“…This change, however, has resulted in commendable progress in reducing overall poverty from 42% in 2004 to 25% in 2011, but with very low progress in the rural areas of hills and mountains in Nepal [26]. Recent empirical studies also have indicated that the livelihood security of smallholder farmers in Nepal is in a vulnerable condition [29,31,32]. Therefore, the goal of reducing poverty and improving a household's livelihood in rural Nepal has remained a challenging task.…”

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Household Livelihood Strategies and Implication for Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas of Central Nepal

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Abstract:Understanding household livelihood strategies is pivotal to minimize rural poverty in the least developed countries like Nepal. This study is an attempt to assess livelihood strategies pursued by rural households, investigate the most remunerative strategy, and identify the factors that influence a household's choice of better strategies in rural Nepal. Primary data collected in 453 households from three villages of central Nepal are analyzed quantitatively within a sustainable livelihood framework. This study categorized households into five main livelihood strategy groups. The results showed that the majority (61%) of the households diversified their income to non-farm sources. Livelihood diversification to business/enterprise strategies adopted by 16% of the households is the most remunerative strategy followed by commercial farming that includes 13% of the sample and are more relevant to poverty reduction. Land holding, education, agriculture and skill training, access to credit, and proximity to the road and market center are the major influencing factors on the adoption of higher returning livelihood strategies. Stimulating poor households to follow market-oriented farm and non-farm activities by improving access to education, vocational training, rural credit, and rural infrastructures is momentous for reducing poverty in the rural areas of central Nepal.

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Section: Livelihood Concept and Analysis Frameworkmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Household Livelihood Strategies and Implication for Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas of Central Nepal

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“…While agriculture remains an important contributor to household food security in mountainous areas, non-agriculture sources such as daily wage, salaried employment, small businesses and remittances, are becoming increasingly important to sustaining livelihoods, especially for households with small landholdings Bhandari and Grant 2007). When environmental shocks occur such as floods, prolonged dry spells, drought or erratic rainfall, most farming households in the SBs face transitory food insecurity due to damage to their farming systems and other livelihood sources.…”

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Household food security in the face of climate change in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region

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This study attempts to understand local people's perceptions of climate change, its impacts on agriculture and household food security, and local adaptation strategies in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, using data from 8083 households (HHs) from four river sub-basins (SBs), i.e. Upper Indus (Pakistan), Eastern Brahmaputra (India), Koshi (Nepal) and Salween and Mekong (China). The majority of households in SBs, in recent years, have perceived that there have been more frequent incidences of floods, landslides, droughts, livestock diseases and crop pests, and have attributed these to climate change. These changes have led to low agricultural production and income, particularly in Eastern Brahmaputra (EB) where a substantial proportion of HHs reported a decline in the production of almost all staple and cash crops, resulting in very low farm income. Consequently, households' dependency on external food items supplied from plain areas has increased, particularly in the Upper Indus (UI) and EB. After hazards, households face transitory food insecurity owing to damage to their local food systems and livelihood sources, and constrained food supply from other areas. To cope with these, HHs in SBs make changes in their farming practices and livestock management. In EB, 11 % of HHs took on new off-farm activities within the SB and in SM, 23 % of HHs chose outmigration as an adaptation strategy. Lastly, the study proposes policy instruments for attaining sustainable food security, based on agro-ecological potential and opportunities for increasing agricultural resilience and diversity of livelihoods.

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“…As using quantitative indicators to analyze complex information increases objectivity [44,45], a three-dimensional (economy, ecology, and society) indicator system was developed to study ecological security in Western Nepal [46]. Ecological security has also been measured using the Ecological Footprint Index (EFI) and environmental carrying capacity (ECC) [47].…”

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Establishment and Application of Wetlands Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Ecological Evaluation Indicators

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Gaomei wetlands are national Taiwanese coastal wetlands. Over the past few years, they have grown into an important water bird habitat and popular bird-watching location. However, the rapid growth in tourism has begun to affect the environmental quality in the Gaomei wetlands. This study combined ecosystem services (ES) and ecological footprint (EF) assessments to evaluate the sustainability status according to the features of each ecosystem service for the different Gaomei wetlands land uses. The results found that (a) the total Gaomei wetlands ecosystem service value increased from 59.24 million TWD in 2008 to 98.10 million TWD in 2015, and the ecosystem service function was continuously improving; (b) the EF increased by 56.12% over 8 years; and (c) there was a negative growth rate of 106.54% in the ecological deficit (ED) in the sustainable ecological evaluation indicators (SEEI). The ecological footprint index (EFI) in 2015 was at Level 4 at 1.02, and the environmental sustainability index (ESI) was at Level 3 at 0.49. Results show that Gaomei wetlands have a low sustainability; therefore, the local, regional, and national governments need to implement regulations to strictly control the Gaomei wetlands land use. This study demonstrated that ES and EF theory application can give an objective guidance to decision-makers to ensure that wetlands eco-security can be maintained at safe levels.

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Analysis of livelihood security: A case study in the Kali-Khola watershed of Nepal

Cited by 81 publications

References 12 publications

Household Livelihood Strategies and Implication for Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas of Central Nepal

Household Livelihood Strategies and Implication for Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas of Central Nepal

Household food security in the face of climate change in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region

Establishment and Application of Wetlands Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Ecological Evaluation Indicators

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