Sentence examples for dominant livelihood from inspiring English sources

Appropriately enough for islands where fishing has always been the dominant livelihood, the six Iles de la Madeleine are shaped like a fish-hook.

Agro-pastoralism is the dominant livelihood where livestock such as cattle, goats, donkeys and camels are kept in a semi-sedentary pastoral system combined with crop cultivation in the humid zone of Mount Marsabit.

Pastoralism, characterized by herd mobility to track grazing water resources in space and time, has been the dominant livelihood strategy in these ecosystems, supporting millions of people (Nkedianye et al. 2011; Tefera 2014; Berhanu and Beyene 2015).

In addition, perceptions on forest change were significantly related to the household livelihood typologies (X2 = 623.4, df = 4, p = 0.000): respondents who perceived forest cover as having declined and those that provided no response belonged to cluster 2 ("low income mixed farming households"), which is also the dominant livelihood typology around these forests.

The dominant farming and livelihood system in major parts of West Pokot is pastoralism, while in the southern-central parts with higher altitudes and more rainfall agro-pastoralism and mixed farming is common (NDMA 2014; Figure 1).

The dominant sources of livelihoods in the sub-basin are land and livestock.

Acacia trees are dominant and important means of livelihood for the local people.

The dominant contribution of livestock-related livelihood activities to household income across seasons implies that pastoral households continue to produce different livestock products throughout the year despite water stress and pasture scarcity, which are the main inputs to the pastoral production system.

Although livestock production is the dominant mode supporting the respondents' livelihoods, crop production is also practised to some degree in the two districts covered by the assessment.

But sanctions are neither in the interests of the West nor of the majority of Burmese for whom livelihood issues are the dominant concern.

Maybe it's because Los Angeles, like any factory town, possesses a dominant industry upon which so many livelihoods depend, either directly or indirectly.