Disaster Financialization: Earthquakes, Cashflows and Shifting Household Economies in Nepal

This study attempts to characterize a typical Chepang community in Chitwan district with reference to their economy at household level based on the study conducted in Lothar Village Development Committee. Chepang are considered to be one of the highly marginalized communities in Nepal having traditional subsistence based small economies. Their houses are small with mud floor, stone walls and straw roofs. One third of the Chepang households do not have toilets. They rear small number of mixed livestocks in a house eg. Cattle, buffaloes, poultry, goat and pig. They do not have household amenities like freeze, telephone, television, computer, motorcar and motorbike; but have mobile phones. More than ninty percent of Chepang go to jungle to collect one or the other types of edibles like githavyakur, wild fruits, and chiuri.Ninty five percent of Chepang people do not have bank account, thus rely on their friends and relatives for borrowing in household needs for money. Chi-square test reveals highly significant association between size of landholding and food sufficiency months, level of education and annual income, purpose of taking loan and sources of loan; as well as estimated annual income and account holding in bank. Economic Literature, Vol. XIII August 2016, page 39-45

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Cultivating biological and cultural diversity: urban farming in Casamance, Senegal

Africa ◽

10.2307/1161514 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 66 (1) ◽

pp. 104-121 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Olga F. Linares

Keyword(s):

Urban Agriculture ◽

Primary Productivity ◽

Urban Poor ◽

West African ◽

Lower Income ◽

Biological Complexity ◽

Urban Farming ◽

Household Economies ◽

City Environment ◽

The City

AbstractAt the present time, urban agriculture—that is, the growing of food crops in backyard gardens, unused city spaces and peripheral zones—is an economically viable alternative for many African migrants. Although previously ‘invisible’ to most developers and economists, urban farming is now recognised as playing a crucial subsistence role in the household economies of lower-income people living in major West African cities. But the practice does more than feed the urban poor. Using the example of Ziguinchor in Casamance, Senegal, it is argued that growing crops in peri-urban and intra-urban zones, on otherwise neglected or half-built-up land, also protects and enriches the city environment while increasing the primary productivity of the inhabitants. Directly, or in more subtle ways, the practice strengthens bonds of friendship, and promotes inter-ethnic co-operation while at the same time helping to maintain biological complexity in interesting and previously unexplored ways. City farming may provide a context through which the urban poor can relate to debates about biodiversity.

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The Buryat Village of Tory in the 1990s: Social and Cultural Re-adaptation in a Small Village Community

Inner Asia ◽

10.1163/146481799793646376 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 107-110 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sergei Panarin

Keyword(s):

Public Life ◽

Drop Out ◽

Economic Conditions ◽

Young Generation ◽

Soviet Regime ◽

Collective Farm ◽

Household Economies ◽

Village Community ◽

Self Reliance ◽

The Village

AbstractThis paper considers whether Tory in Buryatia can survive as a community. It is argued that Tory came to be a unified community under the Soviet regime from the 1930s onwards. As Soviet institutions strengthened, the earlier Buryat society lost its integrity and came to consists of familial groups isolated from and opposed to public life, yet economically dependent on the collective farm. With the 1990s outside support was withdrawn from the collective farm. There is a real possibility that if it collapses altogether, the household economies will collapse with it. It is argued that a large proportion of people in the village have become psychologically accustomed to dependency on the state and may be incapable of self-reliance. Meanwhile, the young generation is oriented to urban and outside culture and may drop out of any process of village adaptation to the new economic conditions.

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Implications of declining household economies of scale on electricity consumption and sustainability in China

Ecological Economics ◽

10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106981 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 184 ◽

pp. 106981

Author(s):

Wenchao Wu ◽

Yuko Kanamori ◽

Runsen Zhang ◽

Qian Zhou ◽

Kiyoshi Takahashi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Economies Of Scale ◽

Electricity Consumption ◽

Household Economies ◽

Household Economies Of Scale

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Artisans, Objects and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy

10.5117/9789463722629 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Paula Hohti Erichsen

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Contemporary Culture ◽

Luxury Goods ◽

Men And Women ◽

Household Economies ◽

The Arts ◽

Cultural Renaissance ◽

Renaissance Italy ◽

History Books

Did ordinary Italians have a ‘Renaissance’? This book presents the first in-depth exploration of how artisans and small local traders experienced the material and cultural Renaissance. Drawing on a rich blend of sixteenth-century visual and archival evidence, it examines how individuals and families at artisanal levels (such as shoemakers, barbers, bakers and innkeepers) lived and worked, managed their household economies and consumption, socialised in their homes, and engaged with the arts and the markets for luxury goods. It demonstrates that although the economic and social status of local craftsmen and traders was relatively low, their material possessions show how these men and women who rarely make it into the history books were fully engaged with contemporary culture, cultural customs and the urban way of life.

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