LSP Working Paper 9
Access to Natural Resources Sub-Programme
Livelihoods Diversification and Enterprise Development Sub-programme

 

Livelihood Diversification and Natural Resource Access

Frank Ellis and Edward Allison
Overseas Development Group
University of East Anglia
UK

January 2004

Cover photograph by Edward Allison

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Livelihood Support Programme (LSP)
An inter-departmental programme for improving support for enhancing livelihoods of the rural poor.

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This paper was prepared under contract with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The positions and opinions presented are those of the authors alone, and are not intended to represent the views of FAO.

Table of Contents

THE LIVELIHOOD SUPPORT PROGRAMME

SUMMARY

1. INTRODUCTION

2. ANCHORING NATURAL RESOURCE ACCESS IN A LIVELIHOODS APPROACH

3. DIVERSIFICATION

4. DIVERSIFICATION AND NATURAL RESOURCE ACCESS: POLICY ISSUES ARISING

5. THE WIDER POLICY ENVIRONMENT AND MICRO-MACRO LINKS

5.1 Land tenure reform
5.2 Rural taxation and licensing (linked to decentralization)
5.3 Migration and remittances
5.4 Diversification, decentralization and CBNRM regimes
5.5 Integration of cross-sector thinking in PRSPs

6. SYNTHESIS AND CONCLUSIONS

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