The most widely spread livelihood strategy involves pastoral livestock production.
Pastoralists in the wildlife-rich East African rangelands use diversification into conservation and tourism as a strategy to supplement livestock-based livelihoods and to spread risk.
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.
Fishing, a traditional means of livelihood, expanded with technology, spreading outside the local market to become the very foundation of international trade.
Results show a diversified crop-livestock system aimed at spreading risk and reducing cattle offtake, adapted to natural resource competition and insecurity by extensification, with further diversification into off-farm activities to spread risk, increase livelihood security and capture opportunities.
The results of this study show a diversified crop-livestock system aimed at spreading risk and reducing cattle offtake, adapted to natural resource competition and insecurity by extensification, with further diversification into off-farm activities to spread risk, increase livelihood security and capture opportunities.
On the one hand are the dairy farmers of England and Wales who see their livelihoods threatened by the rampant spread of TB within their herds.
Diversification into viable alternative livelihoods is another way to spread risk and is likely to become increasingly important as climate changes.
Although reintroduction is seen as a last resort among conservationists, a combination of in situ conservation efforts, such as legal protection, public education, the spread of sustainable livelihoods, and reforestation offer hope for ruffed lemurs.
Thus was born the ASRI Clinic, which provides innovative health services, and the Forest Guardians Initiative, which spreads awareness of alternative livelihood activities, tracks illegal activity, and rewards conservation.
