The livelihoods of the people, particularly the poor, have significant risks associated with them. Disasters, both natural and human-made constitute the major risk for them. Any disaster can cause huge devastation to the livelihoods of the people either temporarily and/or permanently. The poor have very limited resources to prevent, mitigate or cope with the disasters. Integrated disaster management planning significantly focussing on the poor is the need of the hour particularly in the context of climate changes. ‘livelihoods’ looks into the issue of disasters from the perspective of livelihoods of people
especially the poor.

Energy is fundamental part of our lives. Without energy, from its simplest forms such as biomass to its more complex counterparts such as fossil fuels or hydro-electricity, society is unable to maintain or improve living standards, meet the basic needs of its citizens or maintain the socio-economic infrastructure necessary for political and economic stability. Energy access has the potential to alleviate poverty through stimulating rural livelihood options. ‘livelihoods’ attempts to understand the issues, trends and livelihoods in and around Energy sector.

Water is fundamental to the genesis and perpetuation of life. There is practically no livelihood on earth that is either directly and/or indirectly not dependent on water. While all livelihoods depend on water in some way or the other, there are several livelihoods that the water sector itself creates. ‘livelihoods’
focuses on this elixir of life to know its relation to the livelihoods of people, particularly of the poor and the issues that exist in the water sector.

"World hunger hits one billion" says the recently released FAO report. Asia-Pacific region including India is the worst hit region with 642 million undernourished people. Though India is one of the largest producers of food in the world, it is also house for the highest number of hungry people. 'livelihoods' focuses  on the food sector to highlight the issues of food security as well as scope for employment generation.

Infotainment is a sector in the upswing supporting a large variety
of livelihoods and continuously expanding scope for new
livelihoods. India is seen as a huge consumer market for
infotainment. But what is hidden and ignored is the country’s
vast potential to produce huge skilled human resource market for
grabbing the prospects of infotainment. ‘livelihoods’ attempts to
understand the sector of infotainment and the livelihoods in and
around…