livelihood strategy
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livelihood
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈlaɪv.li.hʊd/us/ˈlaɪv.li.hʊd/
(the way someone earns) the money people need to pay for food, a place to live, ...
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strategy
noun
uk/ˈstræt.ə.dʒi/us/ˈstræt̬.ə.dʒi/
a detailed plan for achieving success in situations such as war, politics, business, industry, or sport, or the skill of planning for ...
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Family size which might affect the householdlivelihoodstrategythrough labour supply or competition for resources was also considered.
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They grow opium poppy as part of theirlivelihoodstrategy.
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A society'slivelihoodstrategyis seen as an adaptation to its environment and material conditions, a process which may or may not involve utility maximisation.
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This panoply of livelihood strategies exemplifies the elasticity required of these marginal people eking out a living in a context of great insecurity.
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Before the experiments were conducted, many approaches were used by the project to understand livelihood strategies, farming systems and the role of gender.
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This modest yet detailed narrative provides a micro-level view of how families use structures of networking and exchange in their livelihood strategies.
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It is also interesting to note the relative unimportance of community-based voluntary associations in popular livelihood strategies.
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Fisheries contribute significantly to a diversifiedlivelihoodstrategyfor many people, particularly the poor, who are highly dependent on the river and its resources for their livelihoods.
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We assume that herders are compelled by environmental and population changes (both human and livestock) to adapt their behaviour and livelihood strategies.
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We argue that the responses adopted by the herders are livelihood strategies, which help them to cope with uncertain environments and increasing land pressure.
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We are aware that rural households depend on a variety of income sources and pursue multiple livelihood strategies.
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The livelihood strategies that they pursue in order to survive are also likely to be different.
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We distinguish between 24 different household 'groups' in this study - the product of eight livelihood strategies and three wealth levels (poor, medium, rich).
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When a household has to contend with a near continuous state of food uncertainty, its livelihood strategies revolve around the imperative of obtaining food on a day-by-day basis.
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A wide range of crops is grown as part of livelihood strategies, although there are certain key ones based on the relative proportions of farms under their cultivation.
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They demonstrate how forestry and environmental policies are embedded in political, economic and institutional interests, which are often not directly related to the livelihood strategies of local communities.
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The key is to map out the chain of events that link research and agricultural development and that describe the patterns of change in farmers' livelihood strategies.
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More surprisingly, however, the market is consistently the next most important element in household livelihood strategies, especially in addressing shortages of water, where it is more important than kin networks.
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They not only show the nature and extent of resource flows (money, labour) between the two space economies but also illuminate the disparate livelihood strategies among rural dwellers.
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