"diverse livelihoods" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to refer to a variety of different jobs, activities, or means of sustaining oneself that people in a particular community or area engage in. Example: In rural areas, people often rely on diverse livelihoods such as farming, fishing, and handicrafts to make a living.
Communities in more protected locales fished throughout the year, and had less diverse livelihoods.
However, specialisation as a 'fisher' is rare compared to diverse livelihoods that can be adapted as opportunities and challenges emerge.
Challenges derive from narrow understandings of vulnerability on the part of disaster risk reduction experts, who neglected to consider and understand kin networks and residence patterns that help maintain diverse livelihoods, as well as ensure safety and security.
Since diverse livelihoods are keys to survival, and tightly-knit social networks help families share responsibilities and withstand shocks during hardships, many families returned to the high-risk area or opted not to relocate.
Therefore, remoteness, limited natural resources, and hazard risks, rather than just being sources of vulnerability, can be sources of innovation and strength and have helped to create diverse livelihoods.
Urban areas feature high population density, diverse livelihoods and means of production and are often sites of government-provided facilities/infrastructure. Social network is an 'enumeration of the relationships that exist between groups of individuals or organizations (i.e. who knows whom).
Vicentinos have developed diverse livelihood and social networks in the face of systemic marginalization and oppression.
Policies that support biodiversity investments will more accurately reflect the diverse livelihood portfolios of the region's pastoralists.
This encourages the continuing construction of a diverse livelihood portfolio that has proven successful in the past.
Region straddles multiple topographical terrains, thus population has access to diverse livelihood sources (e.g. fishing, date and vegetable gardening, and herding).
However, some have questioned their efficacy due to uncertainty around the performance and trade-offs associated with CA practices, and their compatibility with the diverse livelihood strategies and varied agro-ecological conditions across African smallholder systems.
