The report warned of a "potential humanitarian crisis" due to the people's "limited livelihood options".
The findings can further help in developing forest policies for maintaining local livelihood options in the Himalayan region.
Rural, resource-poor communities currently face a number of stressors that curtail livelihood options and reduce overall quality of life.
It is involved in the reconstruction of schools and is exploring counter-narcotics training programs for Afghan police and alternative livelihood options for poppy farmers.
The concept of marginalization was elaborated through studies of hazards in the global South and connotes how social inequalities constrain livelihood options of less powerful social groups.
We investigate policies that create alternative livelihood options for people around REDD + forests who are forest users but not forest landowners.
Myanmar's new government faces a myriad of challenges, but if it wishes to develop the economy while increasing livelihood options for millions of rural people, it must create solutions for the thus far hidden problems of the country's oceans.
Conservation initiatives could enhance livelihood options in Namaqualand but are viewed by some as being in competition with the state's land reform programme and are too recent to reflect significant regional benefits at this stage.
Coulter weaves several themes through the work, including the nature of gender roles in war, livelihood options in war and peace, and how war and postwar experiences affect social and kinship relations.
To conclude, the use of a per capita yield and profit incomes analysis provides relevant, objective, and practical policy advice for the management of small-scale and subsistence fisheries where alternative livelihood options may be limited.
As such, the provision of water which go beyond domestic to include water for small-scale productive uses should be encouraged to enhance peoples' livelihood options by making significant contribution to household income, food security, improved nutrition and health.
