1. Transforming Livelihood Systems: Meeting needs in a changing world
- Author:
- Merry Fitzpatrick, Hassan Alattar Satti, and Manal Hamid Ahmed
- Publication Date:
- 03-2021
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Feinstein International Center, Tufts University
- Abstract:
- This is the second in a series of learning briefs under the Taadoud II: Transition to Development project, a collaboration led by Catholic Relief Services. The collaboration includes Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), World Vision, and Feinstein International Center, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. The project is funded by UK Aid. The learning brief series aims to promote awareness and understanding of natural resource use and management in Darfur to support the Taadoud II program and wider programs and policies to effectively build resilient livelihoods. Livelihood strategies are the way people support themselves. People change their strategies as their opportunities, risks, and limitations change. A change in a household’s strategies can affect members of the household differently. Often changes that benefit a household as a whole increase women’s risk and labor burdens. Furthermore, when nearly all livelihood strategies depend on natural resources, changes to the strategies will change demands on natural resources. How one set of households changes the way they use natural resources will affect other households who also depend on those same resources. This could cause conflict over those resources and deplete them.
- Topic:
- Agriculture, Climate Change, Natural Resources, Food, Food Security, and Livelihoods
- Political Geography:
- Africa and Darfur