Vexing to investors, slowing growth in Southeast Asia presents a potentially more serious challenge to political leaders expected to produce livelihoods for a population whose average annual income is just a little more than $1,000 and one-third of whom are under the age of 14.
Using a case study of the Mahushe Shongwe Game Reserve, this paper evaluates how rural households access environmental and economic resources to produce livelihoods, and how these access patterns impact their views of the project.
"Buying the produce supports livelihoods and shows people in Palestine that we have not forgotten them".
The expansion of the settlements has consumed privately owned Palestinian land, causing the destruction of Palestinian homes, produce, and livelihoods.
23 socio-environmental indicators were selected to map the multidimensionality of livelihoods at the eco-development area unit level and produce the Multidimensional Livelihoods Index (MLI).
What followed for the aspiring author were years and years of odd jobs, which produced a precarious livelihood and a rich source of understanding about how the city works.
This, in turn, has led to the estrangement of most Soqotrans from international donors' environmental protection initiatives, since these initiatives were chronically unable to demonstrate that biodiversity conservation through the sustainable use of local environmental resources could produce economically viable livelihoods.
Then and now, the goal is to use trade (as opposed to aid) to help poor people in the produce countries develop sustainable livelihoods.
We reconcile these disparate outcomes, displacement on the one hand and persistence on the other, by focusing on the social relationships that co-produce land use and livelihood change.
Multiple impacts, positive or negative, unforeseen by the intervention's designers, may be produced, affecting health and livelihood, many of them created or shaped by beneficiaries or by people beyond the intended reach of the intervention.
