The report highlights the widespread and substantial observed impacts of climate change, and its growing adverse effects on livelihoods, ecosystems, economies, and human health.
Insecurity has discouraged both farming and herding in many areas with serious effects on livelihoods and food supply (Blench [2004]).
Resulting economic dislocations and domestic austerity measures often had destructive effects on livelihoods and other social determinants of health, which were demonstrated as early as 1987 by a ten-country UNICEF study (Cornia et al. 1987).
It is also likely that public demand for effective control measures would have been far greater if rabies had been a major disease of economically vital animals with a corresponding effect on livelihood.
We reviewed land and forest laws in Indonesia and their effect on livelihoods and conflict and studied the impact of land tenure uncertainty in Rempek village on the island of Lombok, Nusa Tenggara Barat.
Extreme drought conditions have serious negative effects on the livelihood security of most pastoralists in Turkana.
Consequently climate change is expected to significantly impact crop production (Muluneh et al. 2015; Deressa and Hassan 2009), thus bearing profound effects on the livelihood of local communities (Hadgu et al. 2015; Kassie et al. 2013).
Opondo (2013) findings reveal that many of the coping measures at the household level such as selling of property and reliance on support from public and private agencies, and temporary relocation and migration, are erosive as they have negative long-term effects on household livelihood sustainability.
Nevertheless, they have clear perception of the changes in heat, cold and rainfall that have occurred and its effects on their livelihood and health.
Like their counterparts in the 24 other SSCs they could be forgiven for feeling nervous about the outcome of the re-licensing and its effects on their livelihoods.
