Sustaining rural livelihoods in fragile environments: Resource endowments or policy interventions?

V. Ratna Reddy (), M. Gopinath Reddy (), Y.V. Malla Reddy and John Sussan
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V. Ratna Reddy: Centre for Economic and Social Studies
M. Gopinath Reddy: Centre for Economic and Social Studies
Y.V. Malla Reddy: Ecology Centre, Accion Freterna, Ananthapur
John Sussan: Stockholm Environment Institute

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Abstract: This paper primarily assesses the status of rural livelihoods in fragile environments with diverse resource endowments and policy interventions. The objective was to examine the effectiveness of resource enhancing policy interventions like watershed development in reducing resource endowment imbalances across villages and regions. 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.

Keywords: Rural livelihoods; resource endowments; watershed development; policy interventions; Andhra Pradesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2004-08
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