Risk and livelihoods
These are resources that we have found useful in understanding how to think about risk and livelihoods in agricultural projects, including seasonality and environmental risks. Do you have something to add? Let us know!
Forthcoming ALINe publications
Risk and Agricultural Livelihoods: how does project design incorporate and influence farm-level risk? (forthcoming)
This paper provides an overview of the importance of risk to agriculture and agriculture-based livelihoods. It makes practical recommendations on how to incorporate a consideration of risk into agricultural projects.
Seasonality in Agricultural Project Design (forthcoming)
This paper reflects on whether and how projects that support agriculture-based livelihoods account for seasonality in their design, delivery and evaluation. It makes practical recommendations on when and how to conduct seasonality assessments.
Assessing Environmental Effects of Agriculture Projects (forthcoming)
This paper reviews current practices for monitoring and evaluation of the environmental effects of agricultural projects amongst development agencies. It makes recommendations for when and how to conduct environmental impact assessments.
Useful links
Livelihoods Connect aims to provide researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners with up-to-date, diverse and credible information on the application of livelihoods approaches to development, research, policy and practice.
Seasonality Revisited conference web site has a range of resources related to the seasonal dimensions of poverty.
Related research
Dercon, S. (2007) 'Fate and Fear: Risk and its Consequences in Africa', GPRG Working Paper 074, University of Oxford
Devereux, S. (2009) 'Seasonality and Social Protection in Africa', FAC Working Paper 07, Brighton: Future Agricultures Consortium
Devereux, S. and Longhurst, R. (2009) ‘Seasonal Neglect? Aseasonality in agricultural project design’, paper prepared for the international conference Seasonality Revisited, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK, 8–10 July 2009
Gill, G. (1991) Seasonality and Agriculture in the Developing World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
SIDA (2003) Guidelines for the Review of Environmental Impact Assessments: Sustainable Development?, Stockholm: SIDA
