In spite of the complex challenges, pastoralists adopt suitable strategies to sustain their livelihoods, with their ability to transform the extensive marginal rangelands into economically productive areas (Mishra et al. 2010).
The sustainable livelihood security framework may be suitable for assessing local level vulnerability and adaptive capacity through analyzing the status of five capital assets such as financial, human, social, physical and natural (Chambers and Conway 1992).
Climate change is going to halve the area suitable for coffee production and impact the livelihoods of more than 120 million of the world's poorest people who rely on the coffee economy, according to a new report by the Climate Institute, commissioned by Fairtrade Australia & New Zealand.
Renewable energy technologies offer an economically viable and environmentally suitable scenario towards addressing energy requirements for rural livelihoods.
Land officially designated as marginal or degraded, but suitable for 2G feedstocks, may still be relied on to fulfil the livelihood, food and fuel needs of the rural poor.
"But it's suitable for hydro," added Mr. Shakya, who works with Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihood, a project run jointly by the Nepalese government, the U.N. Development Program and the World Bank.
Furthermore, interventions that target the improvement of pastoral livelihoods should consider the promotion of camel milk production as a suitable strategy for building pastoral household resilience.
This implies that stakeholder agencies (either government or nongovernment) succeeded to enhance the awareness of people about climate hazard risks and the most suitable countermeasures through coping practices to minimize the hazard impacts on their generic livelihoods.
Introduction of suitable crops with conservation management practices would sustain farm productivity, soil and water quality, and improve livelihood of poor farmers.
