Endpiece: The politics of livelihood opportunity

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dc.contributor.authorScoones, I.en
dc.contributor.authorWolmer, W.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:10:19Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:10:19Zen
dc.date.issued2003en
dc.description.abstractThis brief article draws together some of the conclusions of the Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa programme. This research has sought to move beyond simple technical/managerial "good governance" solutions to sketch the contours of a realistic, but politically sophisticated, sustainable livelihoods approach. The key policy challenges include: instituting real redistributive reforms, particularly of land; redressing imbalances in market entry and engagement; making decentralisation really work to poor people's advantage; and realising rights increasingly enshrined in progressive legislative frameworks. These face formidable obstacles - and a sustainable livelihoods approach must be rooted in an understanding of the historical legacies and contemporary political/administrative and economic contexts in southern Africa. Such an endeavour would, for example, support mobilisation, lobbying, civic organisation and new alliances around a pluralist and activist politics for livelihood improvement and create links to party-based democratic politics; build on and transform forms of patrimonialism and establish strategic linkages between elites and the poor, and abandon the artificial and misleading separation of public/private, state/non-state in both analysis and prescription.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier1650en
dc.identifier.citationIDS Bulletin 34(3): 112-115en
dc.identifier.issn0265-5012en
dc.identifier.other1650_Politics_of_Livelihood_Opportunity.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66247en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherBrighton, U.K.: Kensington Pressen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/bulletin/bull343.htmen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2003 by Institute of Development Studiesen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectRural developmenten
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten
dc.subjectLivelihoodsen
dc.subjectQuality of lifeen
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen
dc.subjectCommunity developmenten
dc.subjectLocal governanceen
dc.subjectEcosystem Governanceen
dc.titleEndpiece: The politics of livelihood opportunityen
dc.typeTechnical reporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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