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.
Policies and development interventions that reduce risks, diminish livelihood constraints, and expand opportunities for increased household resilience to drought are critical complements to the existing pastoral strategies.
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).
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.
Rates of completion of primary school are at 80%, which means that large numbers of children have diminished opportunities for decent livelihoods in increasingly knowledge-driven economies.
Water supply has diminished and the health and livelihoods of thousands been jeopardised.
An estimated one million people depend on the Danajon's waters for their livelihoods and no one is more aware of the diminished fish stocks and paucity of large fish than these locals.
(Interview #14) What you hear at the ministries of health is from people whose livelihood may be affected or whose turf or influence they think is being diminished.
