Access to livelihoods

In the remainder of this chapter, we take a wide perspective when elaborating the nature and effect of power in this context. This includes political power, for example the power of elected representatives or informal power brokers in local communities economic power, which may include the role of landowners, money lenders, traders, and others who control access to livelihood resources and hegemonic socio-cultural norms including practices of collective decision making, resistance to migration and deference to traditional/customary norms such as those governing access to land, burial practices, and sharing and mutual support in times of livelihood adversity. 

---