This allowed us to present a typology of present livelihood strategies in current settlements.
This recorded data on basic socio-demographics, present livelihood activities, settlement history, and past and present livestock mobility.
5.2, increasing livelihood safety for marginalized populations by providing support for their present livelihood, encouraging livelihood diversification, and promoting technological improvement of conventional agricultural activities are keys to PAVR.
"At present, the livelihoods team can afford only to work in 18 of the 66 villages.
Other attributes of livelihood resilience presented in our framework are more ambiguous and need further clarity than the current study provided.
To place some structure on the heterogeneity within the population of dryland areas, we draw on previous work analyzing this data set from a livelihood perspective presented in McPeak et al. 2012.
The analysis we present below of pastoralist livelihoods around protected areas is a step towards exploring how conservation needs and pastoral goals might be reconciled, and coexistence made a more sustainable possibility.
The company's arguments certainly make for great marketing material, but they do not reflect the reality of solving hunger, or at least not the reality presented by organizations whose livelihood is not dependent on the sale of animal pharmaceuticals.
Third, off-farm income is a very significant component of present-day Maasai livelihoods, usually more so than agriculture, but ranges from poorly paid, insecure, often dangerous work (miners, watchmen, sex workers) to secure jobs with wider political/economic prospects (teachers, MPs).
That these islands are also quite large (>31 km2) and high (>88 m) exemplifies the points that the larger an island, the more possibilities it generally presents for human livelihoods, and the higher the island, the more likely it is to receive sufficient rainfall for a diversity of human needs.
In this present paper, we use the livelihood landscapes approach to dig deeper into the former of these potential explanations; the so-called composition effect, whereby development is expected to be associated with a changing composition of local economies from natural resource extraction to sectors which may be less destructive to the local environment, such as a service economy [16].
