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In a country just emerging from decades of civil conflict, refugees and internally displaced people are now returning to areas they had been forced to abandon. Some returnees received food and other assistance. But many received no support and found their houses destroyed and their land occupied. They had to start from scratch and were unable to obtain sufficient food to meet their minimum daily needs.
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The regions they returned to are characterized by slash-and-burn agriculture on small parcels of land that are increasingly overexploited. Land tenure is a major issue and basic services are almost non-existent. Productivity is low and declining as the land becomes more and more degraded. Residents and returnees alike now belong to a highly vulnerable group.
Vulnerable
people - who and why
Dependent
people in large, low-income households: Urban poor in
Auckland, New Zealand
Marginal
urban population groups: Pensioners in Baku,
Azerbaijan
Poor
households in vulnerable livelihood systems: Pastoralist in
Sahelian zones
Migrant
workers and their families: Seasonal migrants in
Benin
At-risk
social groups: Isolated minorities in Viet
Nam
