Sentence examples for main livelihood and from inspiring English sources

Healthier people make for more effective partners: more productive in agriculture – their main livelihood – and more effective as project leaders, community advocates and educators.

"Mining almost always takes place in rural, marginalised areas where agriculture is often the main livelihood, and one of the most significant impacts of mining on farming communities is contamination of water sources that communities use to sustain agricultural production," says Keith Slack, global programme manager for extractive industries at Oxfam America.

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.

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

Rice farming is their main livelihood, along with metalworking and woodworking handicrafts.

More than 65,000 Akha, Hmong and other Laotian hill-dwelling tribespeople, for whom opium production is the main livelihood, have been cajoled and coerced to abandon the crop.

Their main livelihood activities are agriculture and breeding of animals.

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).

Coffee is one of the world's most important agricultural commodities and is the main livelihood of more than 80 million people worldwide.

Butter and cheese are our main livelihood support products.

Livestock production is the main livelihood strategy around ANP by both pastoral and agro-pastoral communities (Daniel 2011; Beyene 2012; Zerga 2015).