Sentence examples for essential to livelihoods from inspiring English sources

Wildlife hunting is essential to livelihoods and food security in many parts of the world, yet present rates of extraction may threaten ecosystems and human communities.

Ongoing deforestation and contamination of ecosystems Forests are essential to livelihoods, ecosystems, and mitigating climate change and other environmental damage (such as soil erosion), but they are severely threatened by corporate interests such as agribusiness (e.g. massive palm oil plantations in Indonesia and West Africa), mining, and oil and gas development.

Climate change jeopardizes the delivery of goods and ecosystem services, from forests and trees that are essential to livelihoods and food security, to environmental sustainability and to national development.

A long-term approach based on universal education that permits a transformation in livelihoods will be essential to support the nearly 250 million people who will be living in the region 25 years from now.

In countries in those regions, subsistence farming and fishing are essential to the livelihoods of millions upon millions of families.

Farmers who testified before the committee argued that the ability to drain meadows in certain areas was essential to their livelihoods, Mr. Losee said.

But conversion to private property regimes has also resulted in widespread displacement of small holders and indigenous people and the exclusion of many others from access to resources essential to their livelihoods.

"On the spending side, there is an urgent need for more investment to protect natural systems that are essential to Australians' livelihoods and quality of life, such as water catchments, and safeguard loved species and places of cultural and social significance," O'Shanassy said.

The loss of water also reduces flows to local lakes and wetlands and thus reduces the supply of common property resources essential to the livelihoods of the majority of farming households.

Local natural resources were essential to all livelihoods, predominantly as an input for feeding livestock and fertilising fields.

It is as essential to his livelihood as for a pickpocket or a fox.