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Africa Institute of Graduate Studies

Master of disaster management and sustainable


development

Livelihood and food security (DRMS 112)


Assignment: Actions for improving livelihoods and food security

by;

1. Abdifitah Mohamud Abdullahi Aigs/114/2016

Submitted to: Nadir M.

Jigjiga Ethiopia
Actions for improving livelihoods and food security
Actions for improving Livelihoods
A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets, and activities required for a means of living.
A livelihood is sustainable when it can cope with and recover from stresses and shocks and
maintain or enhance its capabilities and assets both now and in the future, while not
undermining the natural resource base.
Sometimes unpredicted disasters happen or they can face other crisis like shortage of
resources, where innocent community lose their lives and properties or suffer to survive
with these difficulties, at that time they are in need of help to recover from this tragedy and
make them resilient.
It is important to study the extent of the crisis and in the end, corrective mechanisms should
be taken so that sustainable livelihood to be attained.
We will take some hypothetical examples of some ideal cities to better understand different
actions for livelihood enhancements.
Livelihood restarting
Let us take a hypothesis example of a very diverse country called Enteria that was hit by a
hurricane in different regions of the country.
Indea Region (ideal city), Enteria
After the hurricane hit in indea, the people needed significant support thus by providing
aids like cash transfers can help them to make business transactions and modes of financing
as source of investment.
This will restart business activities and will make market strength recovery possible in
indea.
Livelihood strengthening
Gobe region, Enteria
Gobe region is facing its own problem, this is not about hurricane, but its opposite Gobe is
arid and is facing shortage of rainfall.
The people of Gobe livelihood rely on pastoralism and livestock rather than agrarian
culture.
The people of Gobe need market strengthen thus they can afford techniques of storing the
diary products and selling it.
This policy of market strengthening can give the ability of storing the rainfall and using it
during the water shortage situations.

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The people of Gobe can attain a sustainable use of their natural resources and will make
the resilient to face any crisis.
Livelihoods diversification
Mirtia region
In This region the sources of income are limited and little have invested the already existed
sources of livelihood and the capacity of their inhabitants.
Some residents invested in bee keeping business and make their livelihood better by
keeping their business booming.
This leads to increase sources of income that enables them to do other activities that were
not existed before.
This is called livelihood diversification where people do different businesses after getting
some income from their previous start-up.
Livelihoods protection
Sangil city, Enteria
The people of sangil get their livelihood from their land which is rich of agricultural
abundance.
Unfortunately, the people of sangil are facing their own crisis which they suffer from heavy
rainfall and soil erosion which make their firming difficult due to harsh climate change.
The sangil community need to receive support to do traditional technique of terrace
cultivation which will increase their productivity and will protect their agricultural and will
make their livelihood better.
This is a good example of actions for livelihood protection that make a better adaption of
climate change and importance of taking the traditional techniques into the consideration.
Livelihoods provision
Emaq refugees, Enteria
In Emaq a lot of refugees arrived and have any supportive links that can provide assistance
for their livelihood.
In this type of situation these communities need some sorts of provision like financing them
to start micro enterprises, giving them skills to work and educating them to adapt their new
environment.
The integration of all different provisions can give them to a better livelihood.

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Actions for food security
Food security is when all people have regular access of nutritious to lead health and active
lives.
How to have the access?
You can have the access to food simply by buying it, producing it or both. So, have source
of income like jobs to do is key to make your livelihood and attain sustainable food
security.
Individuals with no income have not enough access to food security thus they need to get
a safety net that improves their food security and make their livelihood better. That means
attaining improved food security is action call for improved livelihoods.
Improving livelihoods
Providing access of food security like training and support on how to produce food or
improving access to other factors of production market environment can assure improved
livelihoods.
Let’s example of mother of two kids that works in local firm where she gets the livelihood
of her family.
When the firm is doing good the land owner will pay her and the she will use this earning
to improve her livelihood. But when crises happen and the firm underperforms this mother
and her two kids will not have access to food.
Now, if some safety nets are provided to this mother, it can make her livelihood better. let’s
say some food security project provided a cow and some trainings to this family, this
mother can get a nutritious milk to her kids and can also sell this milk and save some money
to her family.
This will contribute to have health and active life to this family and this is what we call
livelihood improvement under food security.

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