Social Sustainability
Rural Livelihoods
The means, assets and activities by which rural people make a living — analysed through the sustainable livelihoods framework.
Definition
Rural livelihoods comprise the capabilities, assets (natural, physical, human, financial and social capital) and activities through which rural households make their living — typically combining farming with off-farm work, remittances and common-pool resources. The sustainable livelihoods framework, developed by DFID and partners in the 1990s, analyses how policies, shocks and seasonality shape these portfolios, and defines a livelihood as sustainable when it can cope with and recover from stress while maintaining its asset base.
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