Mexican farmers fear that a flood of cheap agricultural imports from the United States will take away their meager livelihoods, and end a centuries-old way of life revolving around small-scale farming of corn.
Now she fears her only livelihood will end.
The goal is to help them create livelihoods that will end a lifelong existence in abject poverty.
TWEED, BRASS AND SMOKE One man's trash is another man's livelihood in Mile End, a bohemian neighborhood whose vintage-store-per-capita ratio must be among the highest in North America.
Education and vocational training in a variety of trades and professions helped them forge new livelihoods, and effectively ended the dancing bear trade.
Rules intended to bolster fish populations, several fishermen said, have decimated their livelihoods, and threaten to end that maritime lifestyle.
Poor yields affects a family's resistance to disease, cuts livelihoods and, in the end, reduces access to basic service such as education and healthcare.
But many believe it might end the livelihood of thousands of so-called "rag pickers", engaged in "informal" waste collection.
The modified compensation program pays farmers to build terraced farmland or perform other "green" activities that will also sustain their livelihoods once the program ends.
Ideally, no one should have to risk their livelihood when marriage ends.
