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As per the result, young-headed households were more likely to have diversified livelihood than old-headed households.
Since the majority of households in the study area do not have diversified livelihood options to fall back upon, they are normally vulnerable to extreme drought events.
This could be attributed to the notion that people with formal education have diversified livelihood options which may generate significant returns compared to forest-related activities (Masozera and Alavalapati 2004).
While this finding appears to contradict the New Economics of Labor Migration proposition that migration income is used to compensate for labor shortfalls and make agricultural improvement (Stark 1991; Taylor 1999), it is not surprising given the low returns of smallholder farming and the devaluation of agriculture in rural migrant households' diversified livelihood strategies.
In response to the adverse effects caused by climate variability and change, smallholder farmers have been diversifying their sources of livelihood with an understanding of more diversified livelihood strategies lead them both to enhance incomes and spread the risk for smallholder farmers.
The importance of diversified livelihood strategies and mobility in surviving in an unpredictable environment are all too often ignored.
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While living in the shadow of hazards they have taken initiatives that have resulted in stronger, diversified livelihoods.
Cultivation along the Ewaso Nyiro River was one of the household-based emergent strategies aimed at diversifying livelihood options.
The probability of diversifying livelihood was about six times higher for a household having some level of education than an uneducated one.
We highlight community size, resource managers' ability to diversify livelihood activities and local perspectives on the conservation of common forests, particularly sacred values and intergenerational concerns on forest conservation, as critical participation drivers.
This indicates that the return to investment in soil and water conservation measures; small-scale irrigation; agronomic practices; and diversifying livelihood options each does generate reliable results, especially in areas where climate change and variability adversely affects agriculture which is considered as the main livelihood option of the households.
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