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| Objectives: This study aims to focus specifically on the role of farming systems around Kolkata in the livelihoods of poor people to see how they benefit: directly from permanent employment e.g. fishermen or from temporary employment e.g. casual labourers; through employment in the supply and distribution networks e.g. seed traders and market vendors; through payment-in-kind for work undertaken on the farms e.g. weed clearing and carrying fish to market; from supplies of affordable fish and vegetables to markets serving the poor; from the managed reuse of waste, mitigating environmental degradation and reducing health risks; and from the overall improvement in environmental quality due to peri-urban farming. | |
 Photo: Auctioneers at Howrah fish market, Kolkata. Although widely acknowledged that farming at the Kolkata PUI employs several thousand poor people directly, the indirect benefits of employment in input supply chains and market distribution networks may be equally as great, whilst greater food security afforded to poor communities and the managed reuse of waste resources represent further indirect benefits. |
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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 |