Sustaining Rural Livelihoods in Fragile Environments: Resource Endowments or Policy Interventions? (A Study in the Context of Participatory Watershed Development in AP)

V Ratna Reddy (), M. Gopinath Reddy, Y. V. Malla Reddy and John Soussan

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Abstract: This paper primarily assesses the status of rural livelihoods in fragile environments with diverse resource endowments and policy interventions. Livelihood assessment was carried out using the sustainable rural livelihoods (SRL) framework in the fragile regions of Andhra Pradesh. Qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to assess the rural livelihoods covering all the 555 households in three sample villages. [WP no. 58].

Keywords: houeholds; resource endowments; India; sustainable; development; human captal; education; policy interventions; watershed; rural livelihood; envronments; andhra pradesh; villages; sample; qualitative; quantitative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-11
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