The selected villages were from five of the six parishes in the sub-county, and they included a range of villages located by rivers and Lake Victoria, as well as villages with trading centres and villages relying almost exclusively on agricultural production.
People in the village rely on marine mammals for food, and the village has already taken six bowhead whales this season.
Jaskaran Singh, who supplies milk to Nestlé, says that, without rainfall, farmers in his village rely on groundwater to irrigate their fields and maintain their cows.
More than 99% of the households living in rural village rely on traditional use of biomass energy for cooking and about 60% use kerosene wick lamps for lighting [1].
Many walkers plot a route with a lunch stop in one village, and a stop for dinner and the night in another village, relying on a bed-and-breakfast proprietor to transfer their luggage.
"Our village relies on these animals for income.
For example, many people in one village relied on water sourced from a mountain spring, accessible via steep, slippery and rocky footpaths.
Having heard that Vietnamese villages often rely on a group of elders to make decisions on village matters, and thinking that it would be interesting to talk with them, I asked the three women if they could tell me who the village elders of Ben Suc were.
Many families in villages now rely in part on remittances from relatives in town.
