Pagnani, Tiziana (2020) Methodological and Empirical challenges for analysing and enhancing adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers. Evidences from India and Uganda. [Tesi di dottorato]

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Item Type: Tesi di dottorato
Resource language: English
Title: Methodological and Empirical challenges for analysing and enhancing adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers. Evidences from India and Uganda.
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Pagnani, Tiziana
tiziana.pagnani@unina.it
Date: 10 March 2020
Number of Pages: 97
Institution: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Department: Agraria
Dottorato: Scienze agrarie e agroalimentari
Ciclo di dottorato: 32
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D'Urso, Guido
durso@unina.it
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Caracciolo di Torchiarolo, Francesco
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Date: 10 March 2020
Number of Pages: 97
Keywords: Sustainable Livelihoods; resilience; India; Uganda; Tobit model with endogenous regressors; Doubly robust estimator; Double-Hurdle model
Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: Area 07 - Scienze agrarie e veterinarie > AGR/01 - Economia ed estimo rurale
Date Deposited: 20 Mar 2020 15:28
Last Modified: 10 Nov 2021 10:05
URI: http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/13063

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Rural households living in developing countries are often exposed to multiple stressors that threaten their livelihood system. During the years, numerous policies and programs have being implemented by different international development agencies with the aim of strengthening rural livelihoods. Unfortunately, there are still many rural households characterized by a high brittleness deriving from conditions such as reduced income levels, inadequate adaptation capacity and prominent dependence on natural resources. In light of this, this Ph.D. thesis aim to offer a wide-ranging understanding of the dynamics of development. Particularly, the Sustainable Rural Livelihoods (SRL) framework has been implemented to understand how household livelihood systems may interact with the outside context. This poses significant empirical and methodological challenges, since studies of the interconnections between livelihood resources, livelihood strategies and livelihood outcomes from a quantitative point of view are still limited. The results extend the theoretical understanding of the relationships identified by the SRL framework, and provide empirical evidence about how livelihood resources, livelihood strategies and livelihood outcomes are strictly interconnected. The findings represent a valuable contribution for international development agencies as they offer a better interpretation of the reference context. A better knowledge of the dynamics of development allows the implementation of more targeted development projects and a more effective contribution to improving the livelihood of rural households. All this is pivotal to guarantee the improvement of the adaptive capacity of environmentally dependent households in the developing world.

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