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Essay On Rural Livelihoods

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the economic, social or environmental factors that enable households in rural areas to derive food and livelihood security as well as to provide examples for each of these in a Southern African context. This essay will explore economic, social or environmental factors that hinder the ability of rural households to develop sustainable livelihoods.
In rural areas, there are many factors that enable rural households to derive food. For economic factors, people in rural households invest in livestock and crop farming and then sell their meat or produce to nearby towns. People also get other products from nearby towns and then open up their own businesses to generate income for their household in order to buy food for their families. For example, a survey was done in 2002 in a lady named Nosomsi’s …show more content…

These factors include a mixture of social, environmental and economic factors. In an environmental context, rural household’s dependant on natural resources can affect the quality and quantity of the resources, long term wise. (De Sherbinin et al, 2008). If natural resources are being overused, the sources will run out, and this will then ultimately decrease the sustainability with regards to the household’s livelihood, because the households will not have any natural resources to utilise or to sell for income. For example, the burning of vegetation in Pondoland, situated in the Wild coast in South Africa between two rivers, are done for multiple reasons such as: burning is used to make firebreaks around key sites and resources or to eradicate ticks etc. This overuse of fire is ultimately degrading the vegetation. The soil will ultimately won’t be able to be used for the future, thus hindering the derivation of sustainable livelihoods. (Kepe, T,

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