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.
It did not do justice to many very important themes such as the need to end violence against women, or the need for sustainable livelihoods, or the importance of constitutional governance and the rule of law.
They have indicated the most important livelihood strategies with their order of importance as livestock production, crop production, fishery and trading.
This study tests the hypothesis that both disaggregated and aggregated data collection methods produce similar estimates of the relative importance of livelihood portfolio activities and expenditures.
HPAI does not have pathognomonic features and its impact stems from both its livelihood and public health importance.
These countries have influenced the government of Nepal to recognize the importance of livelihood development and to request China and India to help improve the health conditions of the Nepalese.
Two years after the death of Mao Zedong, it put the thrice-purged Deng Xiaoping at the helm, raised the importance of livelihoods above class struggle, loosened state controls and led to the opening of China to foreign trade and investment.
Despite their demonstrated importance to livelihoods and the environment, mopane woodlands in Botswana, and their counterparts in other countries of southern Africa, are declining in size and heavily degraded due to extensive human utilisation, recurrent fire, overgrazing and absence of management practices.
Conversely, allowing policies and practices which further erode open rangeland and mobility entails inevitable losses both to livestock production, which is of central importance to livelihoods, and to wildlife, which is of crucial significance to biodiversity and also to any potential that tourism may hold for economic growth and poverty alleviation.
Although the CRED statistics are questionable in that they exclude small-scale disasters, which might well add up to a large proportion of the total, they do help us to understand the scale of the threats posed to lives and livelihoods, and thus the importance of the implementation of the SFDRR.
