Sentence examples for viable livelihood from inspiring English sources

IN the first half of the 19th century, when portraiture was a viable livelihood for many American artists, the Philadelphia painter Thomas Sully was considered the cream of the crop.

Livestock production, crop production, fishery and trading are the most viable livelihood strategies.

Further, these woody forage species can withstand seasonal and climatic variations rampant in the sub-region, thereby securing camel forage availability all year around, thus making camel production a viable livelihood option in the sub-region.

But the combined effect of increased climatic shocks, policies that limit mobility (e.g. fencing of communal land) and a lack of alternative viable livelihood options has made pastoral communities much more vulnerable to poverty (e.g. Sulieman and Elagib [2012]), particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa (Thornton et al. [2009]).

Under Amnesty's plan, that number would exponentially increase with legalized demand and cultural acceptance of prostitution as a viable livelihood for poor, low caste and invisible girls and young women.

In communities such as Paraguachon — a dusty, derelict village with no schooling available past fourth grade, no formal businesses, only eight police officers, and walls of trash lining dirt roads — contraband is the only viable livelihood, village president Yudi Peralta told VICE News.

At the same time, the program staff work with the households to assess skills and viable livelihoods as well as providing any necessary training.

Non-migrants constructing cattle-based livelihoods are turning to cattle as the basis for "viable" livelihoods in order to remain in depopulating rural parishes.

The vast majority of households that go through BRAC's TUP program ultimately join the microfinance groups that they had been excluded from for a generation because they now had viable livelihoods.

The findings were ultimately published in Science, which tends to focus on hard science, but the results were so positive in sustaining viable livelihoods for the people who'd taken part, not just immediately but one, two, and three years later, that the magazine was very interested.

This, in turn, has led to the estrangement of most Soqotrans from international donors' environmental protection initiatives, since these initiatives were chronically unable to demonstrate that biodiversity conservation through the sustainable use of local environmental resources could produce economically viable livelihoods.