Showing the main seasonal activities and their spatial variability, which contribute to livelihood vulnerability in different seasons. What are people reliant on in that season? This helps provide an understand the timing of your response.
Strategic
Baseline
As early as possible in a response.
World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) may use these for contextualising the crisis.
Supports a contextual understanding of the area of interest. Helps establish how a FS situation may evolve over time and support distribution agencies by informing them or which areas and which time might need additional support.
Use multiple maps to represent different seasons (i.e. wet, dry; or calendar months - DJF, MAM, JJA, SON) to show the different livelihood activities per season. For example, there might be specific crops planted, harvested at specific times or different types of livelihood activities might be undertaken at different times of the year. The maps should answer the question, what are people in a give area most reliant upon at specific time of the year.
Dominant Livelihood activity types
Administration boundaries