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| Activities: Project activities are focused on both consolidating existing knowledge and generating new knowledge concerning the perceptions of stakeholders, including the poor. - working with farmers: an initial survey of production systems was undertaken to assess the numbers and background of people whose livelihoods depend either directly or indirectly on farming systems at the Kolkata PU interface. Findings from this work are being used to help guide a more focused assessment of the benefits poor people derive from these systems. | |
 Photo: 'Rag-picking' on Dhapa garbage dump. Whereas previous research projects have focused mainly on technical issues, this project aimed to reach some of the most vulnerable groups and elicit their perceptions of the situation. However, it was also recognised that the project would have to engage with senior staff in local institutions if policies was to change. |
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| - working with poor communities: representatives from selected poor groups, identified through poverty ranking, will be invited to participate in household interviews and focus groups to share perceptions of their livelihoods and discuss constraints and opportunities, with outcomes used to identify strategies to enhance poor livelihoods. | |
- working with senior stakeholders: to ensure that project findings and recommendations are implemented we are trying to work closely with senior stakeholders. Representatives from relevant government agencies, NGOs and CBOs have been interviewed to better understand their perceptions of PU farming, whilst project outputs will be disseminated in appropriate formats, targeted to meet the needs of the various stakeholders, increasing prospects for the development of peri-urban natural resource management strategies that benefit the poor. | |
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The 'Renewable natural resource-use in livelihoods at the Calcutta peri-urban interface' project is funded by the Department for International Development (UK Government) NRSP programme and managed by Dr Stuart Bunting, Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1786 466573 Fax: +44 (0)1786 472133 e-mail:s.w.bunting@stir.ac.uk |