These people, economically very poor, were struggling to survive and cutting down the last of their forests in desperate efforts to grow crops to feed their families or earn a livelihood through charcoal production.
Helping widows earn a livelihood through small businesses selling maize.
The security of a livelihood through the better use of the national resources of the land in which we live.
It would also command greater political legitimacy, as society places a high value on work as the means through which individuals earn a livelihood.
Because the inn featured in my novel overlooks a cove in Rockport--a small historic town at the tip of Cape Ann, where the original settlers made a livelihood through timber, fishing, and hauling giant blocks of granite out of quarries--calling the novel Folly Cove seemed not only lyrical, but logical.
Calling for support, not only through donations, but through livelihood, is crucial.
The innovation targeted by this work was off-grid solar renewable energy (RE) systems framed as a development instrument to promote local, community-based resilience to climate change through increased livelihood security and reduction of climate change effects.
In a blog for the Network, director of Oxford University's Humanitarian Innovation Project Alex Betts explains that innovation is about adapting to context, and providing ways to "move beyond encampment through creating livelihood opportunities and self-sufficiency".
Shalini Datta is the founder of AfterTaste, a social initiative with the vision to empower women from India's low-income migrant communities through dignified livelihood opportunities by training them to make aesthetic products through art and craft.
Consequently, this paper goes towards addressing this knowledge deficit through adopting a sustainable livelihoods approach for investigating the tea landscape of Assam.
