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| Seasonal Livelihood Analysis× | Sustainable Livelihoods Framework× | |
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| Field | Development Studies | Development Studies |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 1981 | 1998 |
| Originator≠ | Robert Chambers, Richard Longhurst & Arnold Pacey; Stephen Devereux and colleagues | Robert Chambers & Gordon Conway; Ian Scoones; DFID |
| Type≠ | Analytical method for understanding intra-annual livelihood variation | Analytical framework for understanding livelihoods and poverty |
| Seminal source≠ | Devereux, S., Sabates-Wheeler, R., & Longhurst, R. (Eds.). (2012). Seasonality, Rural Livelihoods and Development. London: Routledge/Earthscan. ISBN: 9781849714327 | Scoones, I. (1998). Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: A Framework for Analysis. IDS Working Paper 72. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton. link ↗ |
| Aliases≠ | Seasonality analysis, Seasonal livelihood programming, Hunger gap analysis, Seasonal vulnerability analysis | SLF, Sustainable Livelihoods Approach, SLA, DFID Livelihoods Framework |
| Related | 4 | 4 |
| Summary≠ | Seasonal livelihood analysis examines how poor households' livelihoods — their income, food access, labour demand, prices, debt, and exposure to hazards and disease — vary systematically across the months of the year rather than remaining constant. Rooted in the agenda set by Robert Chambers, Richard Longhurst, and Arnold Pacey in their 1981 work on seasonal dimensions to rural poverty and revived by Stephen Devereux and colleagues, it uses seasonal calendars to chart these intra-annual rhythms, locate the lean or 'hunger' season, and time interventions such as social protection so they reach people when need is greatest. | The Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF) is an analytical lens for understanding how poor households construct their livelihoods, drawing on five categories of capital assets within a vulnerability context that is mediated by institutions and policies. Crystallised by Robert Chambers and Gordon Conway and operationalised by Ian Scoones and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in the late 1990s, it shifts development analysis from sector-by-sector or income-only views to a holistic, people-centred account of what people have, what they do with it, and what outcomes result. |
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