Given the livelihoods challenges which face many rural communities, understanding a
community’s livelihoods dynamics and opportunities is one major step to developing workable
options to address the challenges. This study has focused on one rural community and used the
five determinants of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach to describe the livelihoods situation
in Embui sub-location in Machakos County, Kenya.
Residents of Embui have had to deal with the fact that traditional production systems are not
sufficient to provide for their livelihoods needs. The community and continues to be challenged
by limited capital for diversifying income sources, low skills and limited social and economic
services.
This study recommends support to marketing of locally produced artifacts, improved access to
capital and provision of water for irrigation along with extension services as the key areas of support to improve the living standards of the residents of Embui / Development Studies / M.A. (Development Studies)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/8604 |
| Date | 06 February 2013 |
| Creators | Mwasaa, Walter Mbele |
| Contributors | Makombe, I. A. M. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | 1 online resource (vi, 76 leaves) |
| Rights | University of South Africa |
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