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| Odada, E.O.; OLago, D.O.. |
| At the beginning of the new millennium Africa is characterized by two interrelated features: rising poverty levels and deepening environmental degradation. Africa is the poorest region of the world. It has the largest share of people living on less than US $1 per day. Almost 40% of the people in Africa live below the poverty line. At least one-third of Africa’s population is undernourished and that number is also growing. Africa is the only region of the world where poverty is projected to rise during this century if adequate measures are not urgently taken. Of the 45 countries on the UNDP list of Low Human Development Indicators, 35 are in Africa. Indeed two-thirds of the 48 countries included in the list of Least Developed Countries are in Africa.... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Environmental degradation; Poverty; Http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6151. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/294 |
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| Harrison, E.. |
| In its 1997 White Paper1, DFID establishes that poverty alleviation is central to its development strategy. The notions of gender and human rights figure strongly as part of this strategy. Gender equality is seen as key to poverty alleviation, as are mechanisms to ensure that basic human rights are met. These principles are also re-iterated by other international organisations in key policy documents such as the OECD s Shaping the 21st Century 2. The international interest in gender, poverty and rights reflects a number of related but not necessarily always compatible concerns. Because women often suffer most from poverty and a lack of ability to exercise their rights, it seems to make sense to consider these three issues together. But this may... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Socioeconomic aspects; Poverty; Http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6151. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/801 |
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| ActionAid began operating in The Gambia in 1979. We work mainly with subsistence farmers in over 600 villages in three rural areas, shown on the map below. Groundnuts provide 85 per cent of the country’s export earnings. The main food crops are maize and rice, but poor people living in rural areas cannot produce enough food for themselves. This is due to inappropriate farming techniques, environmental degradation and natural disasters, such as drought and floods. The removal of agricultural subsidies and liberalisation of the groundnut trade in the 1980s caused increased hardship for farmers. Low levels of literacy, leading to lack of skills and slow technological progress, also cause poverty. |
| Tipo: Other |
Palavras-chave: Rural development; Poverty; Groundnuts; Http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6151; Http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_11368. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/687 |
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| Pittaluga, F.; Corcoran, E.; Senahoun, J.. |
| The vast literature about poverty is organized around various ways of understanding this complex phenomenon. Income, exclusion/inclusion, levels of well-being, deprivation indices, access to material goods are only few of the conceptual tools that have been utilized as measures of poverty. The manner in which poverty is measured reflects fundamental assumptions as to its nature and causes (see Thorpe Chapter 2). Usually, poverty measurements and subsequent policy/programme implications, depend on what facets or angles of poverty are being addressed (Lok-Dessallien 1997) |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Fishermen; Poverty; Http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6151. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/827 |
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