Livelihoods and Markets
Course Material:
Databases
- Scopus is an abstract and citation database. You can sign up for a 30 day trial to see how it works.
- Much of the information contained in this database is also available on campus through:
Science Direct database of Elsevier journals
- SpringerLink journal database
Video
- Manthan - The Churning, a 1976 film that relates the story of a group sent to a poor village to help start a milk co-operative.
Micro-Enterprise Links
- Changemakers, an archived e-journal on social entrepreneurship.
- Donor Committee for Enterprise Development contains a database on developing value chains, linkages and service markets.
- EnterWeb: the knowledge portal for small business, contains business resource material.
- Entrepreneur - Overcoming poverty through enterprise, Asian Development Bank, (2005). This book contains case studies available for download (English and Vietnamese languages).
- Free Management Library for For-Profit and Nonprofit Organizations, virtual library for a wealth of subjects.
- Global Value Chains, an IDS website on value chains. Research on a range of industries and activities as well as manuals and handbooks can be downloaded.
- A guide for assessing the impact of microenterprise services at the individual level, M. A. Chen. Prepared for AIMS, November, 1997. (94K pdf)
- Industry Canada, a range of information on doing business in Canada including Canadian programs supporting business.
- Information and communications services for micro and small enterprises in the Philippines, by A. Miehlbradt (1999), Development Alternatives, Inc. (184K pdf)
- Microfinance in Latin America and the Caribbean, resources from Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
- Boosting employment through small enterprise development (EMP/SEED), International Labour Organization (ILO) resource page.
- Marking Markets Work Better for the Poor, publications.
- Microfinance Gateway, large online library for microfinance and microenterprise.
- MicroLinks, the microenterprise innovation project homepage. Download papers and case studies, find out about USAID funding and other resources.
- NGO Management Association, resources for organizational development, performance management, finances, human resources and communications.
- Overview of studies on the impact of microenterprise credit, by J. Sebstad & G. Chen. Prepared for Assessing the Impact of Microenterprise Services (AIMS), June 1996. (170K pdf)
- Risk and the impacts of microenterprise services, by E. Dunn, et al. Prepared for AIMS, June 1996. (133K pdf)
- Rural Agroenterprise development, Manual Series on the Territorial Approach. From the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical.
- Rural Finance Learning Centre, contains resources concerning rural finance, microfinance and rural development.
- Small Business Advancement National Center (SBANC), University of Arkansas business development page.
- Small Business in British Columbia, on-line small business workshop. Covers a wide-range of aspects concerned primarily with starting a small business.
- Sorting out the truth: The financial viability of business development services, by L. Goldmark, (1999). (120K pdf)
- Virtual Library on Microcredit and Microfinance, a definitive and renowned site on microcredit.
- StFX Enterprise Development Centre (XEDC)
General Links
- Approaches to linking producers to markets: A review of experiences to date, A. Shepherd, (2007). Published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (1.04 Mb pdf)
- Big Fish, Small Fry is a video depicting the globalisation of the Lake Victoria fisheries. Developed by the WorldFish Center.
- Caribbean Farmers Network, connects farmers with information and resources to improve their agricultural livelihoods.
- CGIAR, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.
- Community Fisheries Management Handbook, J. Graham, A. Charles, & A. Bull, (2006). Halifax: Saint Mary's University. (1.4 Mb pdf)
- Conservation Agriculture (CA), aims to achieve sustainable and profitable agriculture and to improve livelihoods of farmers.
- Darwin's Nightmare, a documentary examining the introduction of a predator fish into the waters of Lake Victoria in Tanzania and the aftermath.
- Farmer participation in research, documents and resources from Eldis.
- A Field Manual for Subsector Practitioners: Tools for Microenterprise Programs: Nonfinancial Assistance Section, S. Haggblade, M. Gamser, GEMINI, (1991). (3.5 Mb pdf)
- GRAIN, an international NGO promoting the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge.
- Key Sheets for Sustainable Livelihoods: Overview, Department for International Development, (1999).
- Livelihoods Connect, an introduction to sustainable livelihoods and helpful resources.
- Making globalization work for the poor, K. Watkins. Published in Finance & Development, 39/1, March 2002.
- Making markets work for poor: Comparing M4P and SLA frameworks: case studies, M. Albu & H. Schneider, (2008). Published by the Springfield Centre, on behalf of the Fauno consortium. (459K pdf)
- Noragric Working Papers, from the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
- Seeds of Survival (SoS), a program promoting long-term food security for farming communities in developing countries. From USC Canada.
- Terminator Technology, refers to plants that have been genetically modified to render sterile seeds at harvest. This technology was developed by the multinational seed/agrochemical industry and the U.S. government to prevent farmers from re-planting harvested seed.
- Terms used in enterprise development: Rethinking "BDS": a thinkpiece from the SEEP network, F. Lusby, Action for Enterprise, (2004). (64K pdf)
- Understanding market-based livelihoods in a globalising world: combining approaches and methods, N. Kanji, J. MacGregor, & C. Tacoli, IIED, (2005). (156K pdf)
- La Via Campesina, a movement promoting gender parity and social justice in fair economic relations; preservation of land, water, seeds and other natural resources; food sovereignty; and sustainable agricultural production based on small producers.