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Implementing homestead plot programmes

Experience from India

Year of publication 2006

Pages 77 p.

Author Nielsen, R. ;Hanstad, T.;Rolfes, L.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

Series title LSP Working Paper

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Livelihood Support Programme (LSP) evolved from the belief that FAO could have a greater impact on reducing poverty and food insecurity, if its wealth of talent and experience were integrated into a more flexible and demand-responsive team approach. This paper represents part of an area of work which examines ways in which the poor can use small amounts of land to establish homegardens to support their livelihoods. When land is scarce, access to even small plots can benefit families by impro ving nutrition, providing a source for additional household income, and enhancing the status of women. This paper builds on the LSP Working Paper 11: RDI. 2004. “Small homegarden plots and sustainable livelihoods for the poor”; and LSP Working Paper 12: RDI. 2004. “Land and Livelihoods: Making land rights real for India’s rural poor.”

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