System · Rationale

Pastoral livelihood

Livelihood system through which pastoral households make a living by keeping livestock on rangelands, drawing on their herding knowledge, mobility, and assets, and which is exposed and sensitive to drought and rangeland degradation.

Definition source: AGROVOC: pastoralism

Synonyms

pastoralist livelihood

Broader

Livelihood system

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

System is exposed to a climate hazard, OR is acted on by a hazard-addressing intervention, OR benefits from a qualifying outcome or an adaptation-specific impact; NOT adaptation when named only as the sector or commodity of work, with no exposure and no hazard-addressing action on it.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

SYS_069 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_069
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_069)