CH 8 RURAL LIVELIHOODS

The livelihood system also includes the total pattern of labour allocation of household members between crops, livestock, off-farm work, non-farm business and reproductive and community tasks.

In short, we can say that urban people get their livelihood from non-agriculture occupations, only a few engage themselves in agriculture related activities. 3. The majority of them are industrial workers or workers in different occupations in the organized or unorganized sector.

One of the main objectives of livelihood support in emergencies is, therefore, to protect the assets that are essential to people’s livelihoods, and to support people’s own priorities and strategies. The core principle of humanitarian action, that of humanity, implies the need to protect livelihood.

What are Livelihood Programs? Livelihood programs seek to improve the state of life of the low-income sector by giving jobs and business chances, health care access, and other forms of assistance. These programs aim to enhance community capacity to address the issues of poverty.

We call a livelihood, a sustainable one when it can cope with and heal from stresses and shocks, preserve or enhance its capabilities and assets. A sustainable livelihood is the one which provides net benefits to other livelihoods both at the local and global levels, in the short and long terms.

What is livelihoods loss?Loss of livelihood means loss of earnings, or earnings-related, income for the period from when the applicant is imprisoned until the applicant is treated as wrongly convicted under paragraph 14. It does not include loss of an unemployment benefit or similar government assistance.

a means of supporting one’s existence, especially financially or vocationally; living: to earn a livelihood as a tenant farmer.

Fishing was also more common as part of an agricultural livelihood strategy, suggesting particular aspects of agricultural activities make them conducive to parallel fishing activities. Low labour opportunity costs mean fishing is particularly suited to being part of a diversified livelihood strategy.

Answer. farming , fishing , raring goats, hen’s , dairying, agriculture .

rural workers dwelling” means a dwelling that is on land on which there is already erected a dwelling and that is occupied by persons engaged in rural occupation on that land.