CH 8 RURAL LIVELIHOODS

livelihood activities. Definition English: A livelihood is a means of making a living. It encompasses people’s capabilities, assets, income and activities required to secure the necessities of life.

Differences between rural and urban livelihoods: 1)Rural livelihoods are based upon primary activities like farming and fishing.Urban livelihoods are based upon secondary and tertiary activities like manufacturing and services. 2)Rural livelihood involves living with and being sustained by nature.

Rural households earn their incomes from various sources including cultivation, livestock, agricultural wage labour and other non-farm occupations.

Called arable and pastoral farming in the past, it is among the oldest forms to earn livelihood.

LIVELIHOOD GROUPS. “Groups of households with similar food, income sources and livelihood assets, who are subject to similar risks. Livelihood groups may correspond with a particular geographical area; or they may be defined by other factors such as wealth, ethnicity, and type.”

Livelihood is defined as ‘a means of securing the necessities of life‘. It is a vital part of the work that we do to secure a ‘holistic’ solution to health. In all places, a community’s livelihood, food and health are tightly interconnected.

Livelihood is defined as ‘a means of securing the necessities of life‘. It is a vital part of the work that we do to secure a ‘holistic’ solution to health. In all places, a community’s livelihood, food and health are tightly interconnected.

Deterioration or destruction of livelihoods. Loss or depletion of productive assets. Long term reliance on coping mechanisms which were previously only used in times of acute food insecurity. Environmental degradation and deterioration of natural resources. Increasing impoverishment of communities and households.

In the livelihoods approach, resources are referred to as ‘assets’ or ‘capitals’ and are often categorised between five or more different asset types owned or accessed by family members: human capital (skills, education, health), physical capital (produced investment goods), financial capital (money, savings, loan .

?Livelihood assets (column A) natural capital. physical capital. human capital. financial capital. social capital.