Sentence examples for substitute livelihood from inspiring English sources
Local elders fear that many farmers, especially those impoverished by the government's strict poppy eradication policies, will return to opium cultivation and look to the Taliban or other criminals for protection because the government has not offered them a satisfactory substitute livelihood.
Among a number of households worldwide, forest use and income diversification have been seen as substitute livelihood strategies: farmers with more diverse income sources face a higher opportunity cost in harvesting forests and so tend to rely less on forestry resources.
Practically singlehandedly, she has persuaded 15 traditional cutters to, in their words, "put down their knives" and transition to a substitute source of livelihood, while working with a local theater troupe and radio station to urge families not to mutilate their daughters.
This is a common finding from research assessing tourism's contribution to pastoral livelihoods; pastoralists rarely view tourism as a substitute for their usual livelihood activities, but rather as a possible way of supplementing them (DeLuca 2004; Homewood et al. 2009).
Critical to this may be the increasing involvement (albeit secondary) in the tourism sector, which can be subject to severe global shocks and create new vulnerabilities [52] and the role of social insurance, which can substitute for the self-insurance of livelihood diversification [4].
Senlis proposes a tightly regulated system of licensed farming, not as a substitute for the existing carrot and stick system of "alternative livelihood" schemes and eradication threats, but as a complement to them.
The extent to which people substitute or complement those losses in coffee agroforests depends on the livelihood strategies and socio-cultural practices of local people, management intensity, and policy and demographic factors that affect agroecosystem intensification.
According to key informants, most of these livelihood diversification activities are adapted to complement pastoralism, rather than to substitute for livestock production.
Reason: livelihood issues".
"It's not their livelihood".
