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This study takes place in an Iban community village located at the foot of Bukit Buri in an area called Kampung Kesindu, Simunjan. A part of the community lives in the longhouse headed by a headman named Tuai Rumah Robert Gana anak Jampong, while others have built their own houses around the longhouse. The aims of this study are to study the sustainable livelihood strategies and potential socioeconomic development activities in Kampung Kesindu, Simunjan. The study explores how the community livelihood strategies influenced their socioeconomic and natural environment. This study combines qualitative survey and participatory research techniques, namely Participatory Research Appraisal (PRA), as an approach to achieve a broad understanding of the livelihood strategies and land use of the community in Kampung Kesindu. The social sciences techniques used in this study are transect walk, seasonal calendar, focus group interview, and questionnaire survey. The study shows the essential aspect of the livelihood strategy in the community is to strike a balance between income security and food security. In addition, natural, social, human, financial, and physical capitals were identified to study the livelihood strategies at Kampung Kesindu. It is also important to realise that the community is dynamic in managing their resources. Government agencies play an important role in providing the subsidy and assistance for agriculture development in
This study was undertaken in the four sericulture research stations of Sheema, Kiruhura, Kween and Mukono in Uganda with the main objective of documenting the socioeconomic impact of sericulture project on the livelihood for permanent and temporary casual workers and constructors/ builders at different sericulture stations. Sericulture is labour intensive projects that need both permanent and temporary casual workers and constructors/ builders who are required for smooth running of daily sericulture field activities. Sixty five casual workers and constructors were randomly selected as respondents to the structured questionnaire aspects related to the factors such as sex, education, age, marital status, type of family, nature of employment, household expenditure, household assets acquired and challenges faced by casual workers and constructors/ builders were collected by well-structured questionnaire through personal interview method. The results obtained revealed that more 52.3% male workers were employed than female workers, 36.9% of the respondents were in the age group of 31-40 years, the biggest percentage 73.8% were married, 50.8% of the respondents were working as casual workers whereas 49.2% as constructors/builders, a majority 83.1% of respondents were working as permanent workers and only 16.9% as temporary workers. A majority of the respondents reported that the salaries earned at the end of month has positively impacted and changed their livelihoods of many respondents and this has help them to meet all the family needs and requirements such as family feeding, educating their child's, buying clothing for themselves and for their child's, health, pay utilities bills, drinking alcohol, others have managed to acquired different family assets such as land, some have managed to build houses, mobile phones, radios, televisions solar panels, bicycles and motorcycles and livestock's such as cows, goats, sheep, birds, pigs, turkey and ducks, this can fetches them little economic support for their families and can serve as addition income. I. INTRODUCTION
Changing Pattern of Rural Life and Livelihood: An Ethnographic Investigation
Nepalese Journal of Development and Rural Studies, 2018
The changing livelihood is an unstoppable phenomenon of the contemporary world at the present era. In the due course of social development, changes have been noticed and the social transformation has become an inevitable process. In the study upon the Aarukharka village, various external interventions like modernity, urbanization and globalization have been found to be the causative factors of ongoing changes in the pattern of people’s life and livelihood strategies in the studied community. A qualitative approach backed up by the ethnographic method was applied while various tools and techniques such as elongated stay with the community people followed by key informant interview (KII) and interaction with the participants, observation and discussion were used to gather data. Although change is a dynamic and a common phenomenon, this study implies that the change in the livelihood pattern of the target community is because of the increasing influence of the above mentioned intervent...
Implication of Farming Culture Changes on Farmhouses in Ngadas Village
International Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2019
People in Ngadas Village have enough time to live in their fields. Therefore, the community build farmhouses to help farming activities. However, as an agricultural landscape, cultivation in Ngadas Village has various dynamics. Changes that occur in the agricultural landscape can be traced through agricultural features formed by the type of agricultural land use. In addition, it can be traced through cultural features that are the result of interactions between human activities and the environment such as farms. Therefore, this study aims to find out the implications of agricultural features on cultural features, especially space in house-fields. The in-depth interview and observation methods were conducted to identify, then the data obtained were analyzed by synchronous and diachronic methods. So, the changes that occur can be determined descriptively. The results of the study show that the culture of shifting cultivation that has become permanent causes the fields to develop along...
International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2021
This paper examined the dynamics of land use changes on the livelihood of the local communities in Baringo County. Land is a principal factor of production, a source of life and livelihoods. It provides a means of living and a variety of uses such as agricultural, human settlement, environmental conservation, urban and industrial development purposes among others. These uses compete for space in a fixed area, hence the rising land use conflicts and degradation. The situation has threatened lives and livelihoods, making it difficult to plan for the livelihood activities in the County. This is happening against the backdrop of land use policy changes including; sessional paper no 3
This study examines household responses to livelihood transformation in the Kumasi peri-urban area. The main tools used in the data collection are household survey, key informants interviews and focus group discussions. Quantitative data are presented using tables, graphs and charts while direct quotations from respondents are used to present qualitative data. The study identifies both farm and non-farming livelihood strategies as the main livelihood strategies households adopt in the study communities. The study shows that most households rarely depend on one strategy to survive. However, non-farming households have more diversified livelihood strategies than farming households. The social network support base is also identified to play a very important role in the livelihood of respondents. Since farming still remains a very important component of livelihood strategies in the communities, some form of sanity needs to be injected in the land market. The study thus recommends a speed up work on the urban policy while the land policy needs to be fully implemented. The Land Administration Project must also be fast-tracked to bring harmony in the land market. Moreover, interventions to provide alternative means of livelihood to farmers who have lost their farm lands due to urbanisation can be made. Building the capacity of the peri-urban poor through skills training and access to credit and infrastructure facilities is a viable option. This will ensure a proper integration of peri-urban dwellers into urban monetary economy.
International Journal of Agricultural Economics
This paper examined the effects of land use changes on the livelihood of the local communities in Baringo County. Land is a principal factor of production, a source of life and livelihoods. It provides a means of living and a variety of uses such as agricultural, human settlement, environmental conservation, urban and industrial development purposes among others. These uses compete for space in a fixed area, hence the rising land use conflicts and degradation. The situation has threatened lives and livelihoods, making it difficult to plan for the livelihood activities in Baringo County. This is happening against the backdrop of land use policy changes including; the
Journal of economics and sustainable development, 2018
Forests for hunter-gatherer communities are not only their main livelihood source but are also the centre of their culture. Changing access to the forest stimulate initiation of a community livelihood systems transformation. Here we present a typology describing the level of transformation of Dayak Punan communities towards modernity in Berau district in the East Kalimantan province of Indonesia. Based on a case study using a mixed methods approach in five communities we explore how hunter-gatherer communities slowly but surely are transformed from nomadic to sedentary pushed by external influence and circumstances. Resettlement, expansion of large-scale economic activity and community empowerment programs serves as driving external factors that replaces the high reliance on forest income providing new livelihood options. The livelihoods transformation provides hunter-gatherer communities routes to higher material welfare but simultaneously increases community inequality and reduces...