Livelihood example sentences

75 per cent of the people who are working are dependent on farming for their livelihood.Similarly, you read of how the case of the slum-dwellers being evicted from Mumbai established the right to livelihood as part of the Right to Life.The committee recommended that fishing rights be granted to the villagers for their livelihood.Agriculture has been the backbone of the Indian economy though its share in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has registered a declining trend from 1951 onwards; yet its share in providing employment and livelihood to the population continues to be as high as 63 per cent in 200 The declining share of agriculture in the GDP is a matter of serious concern because any decline and stagnation in agriculture will lead to a decline in other spheres of the economy having wider implications for society.The unemployed poor tramped from village to village, and those with uncertain jobs lived in fear of a loss of their livelihood.Care should be taken to see that this financial and other help does not make the poor dependent on these sources for their livelihood.Some of the displaced people settled around the reservoir and apart from their meagre farms found a livelihood in fishing.Through this period, farmers received threatening letters urging them to stop using machines that deprived workmen of their livelihood.Millions of people depend on it for their daily needs and livelihood.The aim of this movement is to conserve forests, prevent landslides and soil erosion in the region, and to support the livelihood of the inhabitants.In fact they even rejected the idea of renunciation and preferred to live with their families, earning their livelihood like any other person, while humbly serving fellow human beings in need.By managing to earn a higher wage as well as preserving the fish in the reservoir, the TMS has shown that when people's organisations get their rights to livelihood, they can be good managers.This shift to packaged products negatively affects the sales of several small businesses forcing people out of their livelihoods.But now, after thirty bitter years of being adrift, their livelihood having even being more precarious, they keep asking: “Are we the only ones chosen to make sacrifices for the nation.The newly formed Tawa Matsya Sangh (TMS) organised rallies and a chakka jam (road blockade), demanding their right to continue fishing for their livelihood.