Conserving life and livelihood

Impact of Climate Change on Life & Livelihood of Dalits

Living Waters Conserving the source of life

Introduction

Livelihood benefits of small improvements in the life table.

This article proposes and illustrates a new lower bound on the economic benefits of reducing the number of deaths due to a particular cause and specifies the underlying economic and demographic assumptions. Unlike previous estimates of the increase in a population's output due to the extension of working lives, this new bound includes the present value to the existing population of avoiding fut...

Conserving agrobiodiversity amid global change, migration, and nontraditional livelihood networks: the dynamic uses of cultural landscape knowledge

I examined agrobiodiversity in smallholder cultural landscapes with the goal of offering new insights into management and policy options for the resilience-based in situ conservation and social-ecological sustainability of local, food-producing crop types, i.e., landraces. I built a general, integrative approach to focus on both land use and livelihood functions of crop landraces in the context...

Understanding Livelihood Processes and Dynamics

(DFID) supports policies, programmes and projects to promote international development. DFID are providing funds for this study as part of this objective but the views and opinions expressed here are not necessary those of DFID. Summary The concept of livelihoods has gained wide acceptance as a valuable means of understanding the factors that influence people's lives and well-being, particularl...