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Introduction to Livelihoods and Livelihood Strategies: Food, income & expenditure

Introduction to Livelihoods and Livelihood Strategies: Food, income & expenditure Woreda Training Workshop DPPA Livelihoods Integration Unit (LIU ) & Regional DPPB/FSB. What is a Livelihood?.

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Introduction to Livelihoods and Livelihood Strategies: Food, income & expenditure

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  1. Introduction to Livelihoods and Livelihood Strategies: Food, income & expenditure Woreda Training Workshop DPPA Livelihoods Integration Unit (LIU) &Regional DPPB/FSB

  2. What is a Livelihood? A livelihoodis the sum of ways in which households obtain the things necessary for life, both in good years and in bad

  3. What is a Livelihood? These necessities include : • Food • Water • Shelter • Clothing • Health care • Education

  4. What are Livelihood Strategies? In HEA, the analysis of livelihood strategies includes an investigation into how people obtain their food and cash, and what they need tospend their money on

  5. How do we find out about Livelihood Strategies? How do people get their food? • Own crop production • Own livestock production • Wild foods, fish and game • Purchase • Exchange (labour or goods for food) • Gifts and loans

  6. How do we find out about Livelihood Strategies? How do people get their cash? • Sale of crops (food crops, cash-crops such as coffee, gesho) • Sale of livestock production (dairy, live animals, hides) • Sale of wild foods, fish and game • Employment (casual labour, salaried employment, remittances) • Self-employment (firewood, charcoal, handicrafts, etc.) • Small business and trade (purchase and resale of goods) • Other (gifts, loans, etc.)

  7. How do we find out about Livelihood Strategies? What do people need to spend cash on? • Staples (cereals, pulses, tubers for basic calories) • Minimum non-food (e.g. salt, soap, water, kerosene for cooking, etc.) • Sustaining and promoting livelihoods (health, school, agricultural inputs, vet drugs etc) • Other (money spent on non-essential items: more expensive foods, clothes)

  8. The LIU/ USAID , DPPA, DPP& FSB Have completed 29 baseline profiles describing livelihood strategies in each livelihood zone

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