Exploration of Socially Vulnerable People's Livelihood Changes and Survival Strategies In The Semi-Arid Tropics of South Asia

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25570014
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
• Principal Investigator: MIYAZAKI Hidetoshi 総合地球環境学研究所, 研究部, プロジェクト研究員 (30455232)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 社会的弱者 / 生存戦略 / 貧困削減 / 半乾燥熱帯 / 南アジア / インド北西部

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to explore how livelihoods match with ecological systems and to investigate survival strategies of socially vulnerable people in South Asia.
Crop production and animal feeding were strongly depended on natural resources in the village. Vegetables, seasoning, such as salt and oil etc., tea and cigarettes were covered by cash from labor work and migrant work. When money is necessary, not only kin but also money lender was important.

Free Research Field

境界農学、環境土壌学