Livelihood strategies: analysis of female-headed households in Vrygrond, South Africa
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Date
2012
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
This study explored the livelihood activities in female-headed households in Vrygrond, Cape Town. The objective of this study was to identify and analyse livelihood strategies adopted by female-headed households. The Capability Approach was used as a theoretical framework of the study. This approach drew on the idea that resources and abilities enable people to achieve a range of valued ways of being and doing.
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Magister Artium - MA
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Livelihoods, Sustainability, Sustainable livelihoods, Capabilities, Empowerment, Femaleheaded household, Household relations, Inter-generational transmission, Locial capital, Assets, Poverty, Vulnerability