Linking livelihood approaches to resilience thinking is imperative to enhance the understanding of livelihood dynamics and to explore how households maintain and improve their livelihoods in the face of natural disasters (Scoones, 2009; Sallu et al., 2010).
Assessing and addressing the risk factors common to food insecurity and conflict, as well as the livelihood dynamics in conflict-prone areas, can serve as a mechanism both for pre venting conflict and reducing hunger.
Depending on how payments articulate with national, regional and local conditions, the commoditisation of ecosystem services has implications for the property rights of the targeted resources, local socio-political relations, livelihood transitions, cultural dynamics and landscape changes.
When there is recognizable degradation in ecosystem health, wildlife dynamics, or livelihood security, this is a sign that the tolerance is in decline and needs to be strengthened.
This paper presents perceptions of the pastoral community on the dynamics of pastoral livelihoods under three land-use types namely nomadic, semi-nomadic, and sedentary in Amboseli ecosystem located in southern Kenya.
These new, national-scale insights on the prevalence, economic contribution and determinants of trees on farms in Africa lay the basis for exploring the interaction of agriculture, on-farm tree cultivation, and forestry to gain a more complete picture of the dynamics of rural livelihoods across the continent and beyond.
Data on the dynamics of migration, livelihoods and health are presented by this study, with the aim of providing insights for policy-makers and population scientists.
However, the success rate varies in both space and time due to diverse social and biophysical settings, implying that watershed management programs need a careful analysis of the social and environmental dynamics to successfully address livelihood and conservation concerns.
We suggest a more environmentally nuanced process of FMD control that safe-guards the integrity of wild populations and the ecosystem dynamics on which human livelihoods depend while simultaneously improving socio-economic conditions of rural people.
The specific objectives of the study are as follows: (i) to describe current livelihood strategies and outcomes with emphasis on dynamics and diversity, (ii) to present the current context of risks and vulnerability and (iii) to assess the sustainability of the livelihood strategies employed.
In reality, the dynamics and trends in pastoral livelihood strategies are much more complex and heterogeneous than this simple categorisation suggests, but the description of those goes far beyond the scope of this paper.
