Sentence examples for main livelihood activity from inspiring English sources

Pastoralism is their main livelihood activity, and their transhumant system has developed under variable geopolitical, social and climatic conditions (Tlou 1985).

Though members do not perceive involvement in conservancies as their main livelihood activity, which remains overwhelmingly livestock based, they do consider it an important supplement.

Since payments do not adequately compensate conservancy members for the restrictions they put on their other livelihood activities, members did not perceive conservancies as their main livelihood activity but as an important supplementary livelihood source.

No study has attempted to provide a sub-regional analysis of land use and land cover changes and how they impact on extensive livestock production system in the Karamoja sub-region, and yet, pastoralism is still the main livelihood activity for the Karamojong community.

In this rural area, agriculture is the main livelihood activity, and households commonly grow staple crops (maize, millet and sorghum) along with a limited variety of vegetables; production is sub-optimal due in part to high HIV prevalence and poor economic conditions.

Sensitivity and adaptive capacity largely depend on the main livelihood activities practiced by a farmer and the specific livelihood resources needed to carry out these activities (Luers et al. 2003; Turner et al. 2003; IPCC 2007).

Their main livelihood activities are agriculture and breeding of animals.

From the following overview of their main livelihood activities, it is clear that some of these are compatible with the park's management plan, while others are not.

The rural people of Ethiopia in general are dependent on summer rain for agricultural production activities (main livelihood of the country) (NMSA 2007).

Moreover, rainfall variability is also higher for most of the stations in the area where agricultural activities are the main livelihood.

The main livelihood is pastoralism, complemented with off-farm activities such as firewood collection, charcoal burning and casual labour.