Livelihoods Sentence Examples

The dash for exports is also threatening rural livelihoods.

The coastal zone is also a key natural resource on which livelihoods depend.

The challenge is to conserve the unique rangeland biodiversity while promoting improved livelihoods for pastoralists who are solely dependent on these ranges.

Christian Aid works on issues from HIV/AIDS, peace building, emergency response and sustaining livelihoods to trade and human rights.

Free elections can be threatening as well, literally to their livelihoods.

Frontier projects advance field research and implement projects that will help conserve biodiversity and help develop sustainable livelihoods.

I sympathize with the plight of farmers today, who see their livelihoods threatened by consumers refusing to buy such hybrids.

The bulk of these were most likely fishermen and others whose livelihoods depended on the local waters, as well as sailors.

This loss of cultivated area struck at the livelihoods of over 113,000 peasant households.

It is grossly irresponsible of the Green lobby to play with people's livelihoods on the basis of a biased economic report.

The global crisis has destroyed the livelihoods of 25 million coffee producers around the world.

The need is to create sustainable livelihoods for everyone.

In turn, the livelihoods of thousands of poor pastoralists who rely on the animals for their survival are also affected.

Nearly a million civilians who fled southern Lebanon are now returning to find they have lost homes, possessions, and livelihoods.

He has recently completed his MPhil on rural livelihoods and communal rangeland resource in the Eastern Cape.

However, most people in the country, and almost all the poorest, depend on smallholder agriculture for their livelihoods.

These may well involve high import costs, ecological damage and displace alternative livelihoods.

However, ensuring adequate household livelihoods is only part of the picture.

Foundation aims to ease suffering Farmers whose livelihoods have been affected by the foot-and-mouth outbreak are to receive help.

Early in his career, Dane Cook took the leap from comedian to actor -- a gutsy move that helped skyrocket the livelihoods of fellow comedians Ray Romano, George Lopez and Denis Leary.

In the Philippines, Oxfam is working with fishing communities whose livelihoods have been destroyed by intensive shrimp farming.

This is a significant step forward in the fight against a major African livestock disease, which currently devastates the livelihoods of many.

India produces 2.5 million tons of cotton each year, sustaining livelihoods of over 17 million people.

Within the (natural products) sector there are clear opportunities for entrepreneurial development and improved livelihoods for many poor rural communities.