Sentence examples for specific livelihood from inspiring English sources

It is important to concentrate on a methodological process to collect this knowledge, ranging from identification to recommendations based on community specific livelihood practices (Sillitoe 1998).

While narratives focused on national food sovereignty support large-scale food estates in ways that fit a particular politics of food, they overlook the specific livelihood challenges facing rural populations and the problems of food poverty in marginal landscapes.

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).

If policy choices are to deal with the underlying issues, then the alternative values, guiding assumptions and scalar strategies encompassed by rival narratives need to be appraised and reconciled with the specific livelihood challenges of rural people and the need to secure an inclusive and equitable society in a changing global environment.

On the other hand, one could define optimal rainfall as sufficient rainfall in amount and distribution over time and space to meet the needs of specific livelihoods.

Just because we have achieved a specific quality of livelihood doesn't mean there will not be an opportunity to upgrade and evolve to the next level.

SURE enables simulations and calculation of the disparities that may arise between current and potential livelihoods after specific energy solutions have been installed, as well as measuring potential trade-offs among alternative livelihoods.

Hsu suggests that we are locked into our carbon-hungry lives and our extractive livelihoods by specific and pervasive public policies which favour the creation and stability of capital.

Three chapters in particular illustrate the impacts of specific policies on pastoralist livelihoods.

Some individual studies are notable in providing especially thought-provoking insights into the specific articulations of pastoralist livelihoods and markets, and the making of market relations.

The latter point emerges as a central one: the wealth of detailed, ethnographic research on specific pastoral systems and livelihoods is clearly acknowledged, but with the ambition to use such 'situated knowledges' to develop wider understandings of pastoral livelihoods and market relations.