Converse of object

• threaten: The dash for exports is also threatening rural livelihoods.

• destroy: The global crisis has destroyed the livelihoods of 25 million coffee producers around the world.

• jeopardize: Many people view income protection insurance as dead money but not having it jeopardizes ones livelihood.

• devastate: This is a significant step forward in the fight against a major African livestock disease, which currently devastates the livelihoods of many.

• sustain: India produces 2.5 million tons of cotton each year, sustaining livelihoods of over 17 million people.

• earn: They are forced to migrate and often end up selling their bodies to earn a livelihood.

Adjective modifier

• sustainable: The need is to create sustainable livelihoods for everyone.

• rural: The dash for exports is also threatening rural livelihoods.

• viable: One of the aims of the Project is to help the farmers develop a viable financial livelihood.

• decent: A good forest economy would be owned locally. It would afford a decent livelihood to local people.

• improved: Within the ( natural products ) sector there are clear opportunities for entrepreneurial development and improved livelihoods for many poor rural communities.

• alternative: These may well involve high import costs, ecological damage and displace alternative livelihoods.

Modifies a noun

• diversification: Migration has become an important livelihood diversification strategy in small farm households.

• strategy: Migration has become an important livelihood diversification strategy in small farm households.

Noun used with modifier

• household: However, ensuring adequate household livelihoods is only part of the picture.

Possessives

• farmer: Many poor countries are powerless to stop a flood of cheap food imports, which threaten farmers ' livelihoods.

Preposition: of

• farmer: Develop a viable business model that supports the livelihoods of Indian farmers.

• million: Stopping the spread of the disease is crucial in order to save the livelihoods of millions of people.

• fisherman: Above all, it knowingly forces vessels into insolvency and destroys the livelihoods of fishermen and their families.

• thousand: The Common Fisheries Policy has destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of fishermen.