Livelihoods is an aggregate measure of how people or a given population ( as small as a household of a single person) make their living within the limit imposed by the environmental, social, economic and political conditions of the society within which they live. This determines the totality of human welfare of a household at the micro level, and a community, a region or a nation at macro level. Livelihood pattern of a population varies along with the variation in above mentioned variables. |