Support in the form of building materials, daily transportation services to connect with the mainland and district government center, sufficient village budget allocations, and other current government projects (secondary and high school building with its facilities) enabled the people of Laingpatehi to develop stronger livelihoods.
Importantly, these five measures reflect the desired impacts (wildlife and habitat conservation), desired outcomes of our conservation actions (reduced threats), and the strategies we often deploy to effect conservation (better law enforcement, stronger governance, and more secure livelihoods).
While living in the shadow of hazards they have taken initiatives that have resulted in stronger, diversified livelihoods.
comm).. On the other hand, the pressure on forest commodities that could generate an income such as timber or fuel wood, increased (ibid).. Droughts exert strong pressure on livelihoods in all four studied areas, but the vulnerability of the local communities varied as well as their responses (Table 2).
Scarcity of grazing resources attributed to the invasion of Dergi Hara and drought created livestock feed crisis with strong implication on the livelihood of pastoralists.
Mexican and Central American smallholder coffee production systems show strong interdependencies connecting rural livelihoods with high levels of agrobiodiversity.
In 2009, Trickle Up launched Stronger Voices, Sustainable Livelihoods, a USAID-funded project to enable 800 Malian PWDs to have a more active voice and role in their communities.
Changes in drought pattern are expected to have a strong impact on the economic livelihood of the region, especially for agricultural production.
Given Equatorial-Guinea's small formal economy and severe poverty, cash grants would however likely have a stronger positive impact on basic livelihood as well as micro-entrepreneurship, as they have had in other underdeveloped countries.
In the past decades Dutch flood defence infrastructure has met with a growing societal awareness of landscape and cultural values, of the importance of local livelihoods, and increasingly strong claims and demands for active citizen involvement in decision-making and planning processes that change people's life-worlds.
