According to most stakeholders interviewed in this study, there is a strong relationship between poverty and mental illness; the two being mostly linked in a vicious cycle of exclusion, limited access to services, low productivity, asset depletion and diminished livelihood.
The report estimates the cost of this environmental destruction, not only from lost agricultural production and diminished livelihoods, but also from the lost value of ecosystem services formerly provided by the land, including water filtration, erosion prevention, nutrient cycling and the provision of clean air.
Half a billion people are rising out of poverty in China, while millions face diminished livelihoods in America, a fact ironically blurred by the ever-falling prices of the Chinese goods that fill our homes.
Diminishing household livelihood situations in rural areas is largely attributed to climate uncertainties which constrict crop and livestock performance (Mertz et al. 2009a; Oluoko-Odingo 2011).
However, payments were often well below the opportunity costs faced by participants over the life of the scheme, which could diminish positive impacts on local livelihoods and ultimately undermine the sustainability of such schemes.
So far, there is little evidence that these schemes are meeting the high expectations advocates place upon them (Porras et al. 2008), but rather a growing concern that PES could diminish rather than enhance local livelihoods (Cotula and Mayers 2009; Lee and Mahanty 2009).
Therefore, management of grazing intensity plays a crucial role to avoid or to diminish land degradation and to sustain both livelihoods and ecosystem functioning.
The "erosive" nature of such a strategy is the diminishing stock of human capital for future livelihood options.
They are the fishermen of the Indus River delta, whose livelihoods have diminished over the years from a lack of water, and who welcome the sudden abundance.
He often went to buy tools with which to repair the ranch house, but he also passed the time of day chatting with the gardener, or with the keepers of the general store and the hardware store, whose livelihoods he diminished day by day, as he lengthened the accounts he had with each of them.
