The environmental and economic effects of climate change, such as flooding, water shortages, drought, declines in farm yields, and loss of livelihood, have begun to amplify rural urban migration in developing regions (Adamo 2010; IPCC 2007b).
Many communities along the Gulf Coast are yet again facing a threat to their livelihood as oil spreads across the ocean and begins polluting the shoreline.
However it begins, rice growing can develop from a livelihood into a lifestyle.
Emae communities, along with environmental stakeholders, are intimately aware of their livelihood assets and are beginning to address the large scale environmental and social challenges.
The LEGS handbook begins with a discussion of the role of livestock in livelihoods and the importance of addressing livestock as a key livelihood asset for pastoralist and other communities.
When he begins to teach an animation workshop for Burmese graphic artists, he discovers that the friendship could cost them their jobs and livelihoods.
Many had already left the island after by the Boxing Day collapse in 1997 and facilitated by relocation packages offered in 1998, but even for those that stayed and had lost their houses, land and jobs, the north did not represent an 'acceptable option' in terms of levels of risk and livelihood options until housing reconstruction began (interview, UK government official, 2 October 2012).
As the recession began claiming the livelihoods of ordinary workers, other politicians of the left avoided the incendiary glee of the German MEP and former street fighter.
It's also been part of my livelihood: I've written four books, beginning with "The Cobra in the Barn," that document dozens of stories of what I call automotive archaeology.
Realizing the negative effects of climatic change on their livelihood bases, the Afar pastoralists gradually began supplementing their food gaps through farming crops along with livestock herding.
