Livelihood security of women in hills: A comparative study of India and Sri Lanka

  • 30/09/2010

  • Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics

Livelihood security has been interpreted in different ways by various scholars. While livelihood has been defined  as an adequate flow of resources (both cash and kind) to meet the basic needs of the people, access to social institutions relating to kinship, family and neigbourhood, village and gender bias free property rights required to support and sustain a given standard of living, livelihood security. The study was carried out in the tea  growing areas of Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh (India) and Nuwara Eliya district of Sri Lanka which have almost similar agro-climatic conditions.