LSP Working Paper 4
LSP Working Paper 4
Livelihoods Diversification and Enterprise Development Sub-Programme

Livelihoods Diversification and Enterprise Development

An Initial Exploration of Concepts and Issues

Patrizio Warren
December 2002


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 author alone, and are not intended to represent the views of FAO.


Table of Contents

The Livelihood Support Programme

The Livelihoods Diversification & Enterprise Development

1. Introduction

2. Rural livelihoods strategies and diversity

3. Agricultural intensification and rural livelihood diversification

3.1 Agricultural intensification
3.2 Rural livelihoods diversification

4. Household determinants of livelihood diversification choices

4.1 Availability of key-assets
4.2 Maximization of return per unit of labor
4.3 Risk management
4.4 Strengthening the household asset basis
4.5 Opportunities
4.6 Identity and vision of the future
4.7 Gender relationships

5. Basic alternatives in rural livelihood diversification

6. Rural enterprises and wage-labor compared.

7. Small enterprise development and sustainable rural livelihoods

References

Further information about the LSP

LSP WORKING PAPERS to June 2004