Livelihood Strategies
The resilience and inventiveness of rural people in constructing a means of
living by adapting to their environment and managing complexity, is the foundation
of the concept of livelihood.
People, not jobs or industry, are at the center of livelihood. Understanding
livelihood begins with understanding how people structure their means of living; how
they use capabilities, assets and activities in a resilient manner to sniff around and
look for opportunities, to diversify by adding enterprises, and to multiply activities
and relationships in order to create stability (Allison 2005).