System · Rationale

Rural livelihood

Livelihood system through which rural households make a living from a mix of farm and non-farm activities, assets, and social relations, and which is exposed.

Definition source: IFAD Rural Development Report

Synonyms

rural household 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.

Example of use

Climate context: sensitive to climate hazards affecting the rural resource base.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

SYS_073 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_073
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_073)