Sentence examples for scarce livelihood from inspiring English sources

I kept thinking of Bicycle Thieves, and the desperate face of the poor father walking the streets of post-World War II Rome seeking to recover his stolen source of a scarce livelihood.

But the fish that once supplied his livelihood are scarcer than they used to be, and so is money.

Houses can be replaced but in southern Africa arable land is scarce, and restoring the lost livelihood of a poor land-dependent household is difficult.

Dr. Al-Tabini has managed development projects in the Middle East and North Africa on community-based rangeland rehabilitation, management of scarce water resources, and sustainable livelihoods in agro-pastoral communities.

Healthcare, education and livelihood services may be scarce, costly and not easy for persons with disabilities to access.

Earnings are down and contracts scarce, putting careers in crisis and livelihoods at risk.

In some areas, fierce competition for scarce resources have led to deteriorating livelihoods, social marginalization, crime and general insecurity.

Droughts force people to find new areas for their livelihood and increase competition for scarce resources.

Some scholars perceive pastoralists as vulnerable to climate change while others view them as the most capable to adapt to climate change, since pastoral livelihoods are shaped to deal with scarce and variable natural resources (Nori and Davies 2007).

In my travels around the world, I have seen the heartache and pain in the eyes of parents who have lost a child and communities devastated because crops are scarce and disaster, conflict and climate change are impacting livelihoods.

When resources are scarce, or so degraded that they can no longer sustain livelihoods, or inequitably distributed, conflict invariably ensues.