In 1970, Trevor and Kathleen founded Wellfleet Pottery, their artistic collaboration and livelihood, where they produced Wellfleet Pottery Umber China, now a collectable.
Agro-pastoralism is the dominant livelihood where livestock such as cattle, goats, donkeys and camels are kept in a semi-sedentary pastoral system combined with crop cultivation in the humid zone of Mount Marsabit.
Like the CNT, the CIC is making a new world in the shell of the old—so the utopian mantra goes and, to a degree that is not at all utopian, creating livelihoods for themselves in a place where livelihoods are not at all easy to come by.
According to a UNICEF report, "Still today more than one million people remain displaced, living in crowded camps where livelihoods, shelter and services are still hardly sufficient for children to stay healthy".
No such facility of association occurs in today's mushroom-cities, where livelihood has been fragmented.
Yet its success has come from organising well at the grassroots and concentrating on livelihood issues, areas where the Democrats have been notoriously weak.Moreover, for all their lofty notions, the Democrats have put off voters with public bickering between the party's social-democratic grandees and its more populist, pro-labour activists.
In areas where livelihood choices are limited, decreasing crops yield may lead to out migration.
Generally, wells along faults sustain important livelihood systems locally where they often serve as the only source of water in many areas (Fig. 1).
The collective actions of people in approximately 4,000 sq km of a rain-shadow area have ensured a secure livelihood for people where grass is the main crop and livestock rearing is an important income generating activity.
What was significant about this quest for resources was that it occurred in a context in which survival was a permanent challenge, and where livelihood opportunities have always varied according to seasons.
In communities where livelihood is based on land resources, the success of mitigation measures depends on how good the community adapts to the prevailing conditions (e.g., drought, erratic rainfall, flood, etc).
