Return to search

Towards livelihoods security : livelihoods opportunities and challenges in Embui, Kenya

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)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/8604
Date06 February 2013
CreatorsMwasaa, Walter Mbele
ContributorsMakombe, I. A. M.
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDissertation
Format1 online resource (vi, 76 leaves)
RightsUniversity of South Africa

Page generated in 0.0025 seconds