In these lean months, hunting becomes more important as a livelihood activity.
After explaining where mosquito larvae develop, 56% (50/90) felt that these sites were important for their livelihood.
The data sets are very important for calculating livelihood vulnerability index (LVI) and computing percentage, maximum and minimum values of the observation used for comparison between indicators.
This improvement in agricultural productivity is important for enhancing farmer livelihood, reducing rural poverty, and increasing food security (Shiferaw et al. 2014; Zeng et al. 2015; Asfaw et al. 2012; Kassie et al. 2011; Becerril and Abdulai 2010; Alene et al. 2009; Minten and Barrett 2008; Evenson and Gollin 2003).
The dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius), which is a versatile animal capable of living in harshly semi-arid and arid areas of the world, is extremely important for livelihood of pastoral communities through provision of milk, meat and draft power for transportation of goods.
Both urban and rural respondents from indigenous communities view rivers, grasslands and forest plantations as the most wanted land covers that provide multiple ES important for their livelihoods.
Indigenous communities in South Africa are severely affected by land degradation and global climate change, which lead to decline in the provision of multiple ecosystem services (ES) important for rural livelihoods.
Because of the perishable nature of milk, marketing arrangements for collection, distribution and sale are important for enhanced livelihoods in the smallholder dairy sector.
Nevertheless, agricultural sources of income remain critically important for rural livelihoods in all countries.
