Fishing in the Sundarbans is quite risky and threatening due to chance of sudden attack of fierce animals and seasonal occurrence of cyclones at the Bay of Bengal. Fishing yield also is uncertain and inconsistent, especially over the last two decades burgeoning population growth exerts a continuous pressure on the fishing resources. Moreover, increasing school attainment among younger generation declines the rate of their early engagement in ancestral occupation. Such scenarios of livelihood contexts and livelihood assets pose serious threats to the livelihood system. To combat with this situation people of the Sundarbans adopt different livelihood strategies and eventually they leave aquatic occupations and adopt terrestrial one. Since the last two decades such change of livelihood pattern has been profoundly observed. To explore these changing scenarios, the present article has been made an attempt to unfold the relationship among livelihood assets, livelihood contexts and livelihood dynamics for the fishing community of the Indian Sundarbans.
Livelihood dynamics, livelihood asset, livelihood context, Seasonality, shock, trend
