tailieunhanh - A commercial-based approach to sustainable livelihoods : Review and syntheses

he purpose of the paper is to exploremissing factors in the livelihood sustainable framework in previous studies. Theresult of reviewing and synthesis shows that the role of market has unliklely beenexploited in the framework whereas most livelihoods is currently depending on themarket system. | JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, Hue University, Vol. 70, No 1 (2012) pp. 207-216 A COMMERCIAL-BASED APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS: REVIEW AND SYNTHESES Truong Tan Quan1, Nguyen Van Toan2 1 College of Economics, Hue University 2 Hue University Abstract. Sustainable livelihood framework has been developed and used by several authors, organizations and studies. The purpose of the paper is to explore missing factors in the livelihood sustainable framework in previous studies. The result of reviewing and synthesis shows that the role of market has unliklely been exploited in the framework whereas most livelihoods is currently depending on the market system. Therefore, the market role has been integrated in the framework when traditional sustainable livelihood framework and supply chains analysis have been combined. 1. Introduction A considerable number of studies, projects and papers have applied a sustainable livelihood framework in their works to investigate the livelihood of people from households to community levels. However, it is likely that the role of markets is neglected in these applications, so intervention is not very effective and efficient yet. The purpose of this paper is to review and synthesize previous studies and then develop the framework that will be used to investigate household livelihoods in market-based production. The paper is structured into five sections. Following this introduction is the second section which discusses the conventional sustainable livelihoods framework and its relevance to household behavior. The third section discusses the linkage between livelihoods and markets in a market focused system. A commercial-based sustainable livelihood framework is then developed by integration of traditional sustainable livelihoods theory and supply chains analysis. Finally, some conclusions are drawn. 2. Sustainable livelihoods approach . Main features of conventional sustainable livelihoods Sustainable livelihood (SL) concepts have been .