Participants were purposively selected from. Reducing household food insecurity is a public policy challenge in the global south. The study examines the motives and constraints to livelihood diversification.
Livelihood diversification is integral in increasing household resilience against shocks in the global south. Many rural households diversify their livelihood portfolios as a strategy of dealing with food. A systematic innovation perspective (2nd call for papers for an international forum of future rural studies)
At higher levels of shwb, education and income have much greater influence. Our analysis shows that livelihood diversification is associated with improvements in shwb for households with low and medium levels of wellbeing (<50th percentile in our sample). Rural transformation and sustainability in the global south: