Improved targeting and design of livelihood interventions will ensure that the projects achieve the goals of providing alternatives for fishers, increasing well-being and improving biodiversity conservation.
These findings reflect multiple vulnerabilities which should be central in the design of livelihood enhancement interventions for returnees in Pader district of which HIV and AIDS mainstreaming should be part.
Portuguese developers Pelicano plan to make the One Planet Living concept - integrating ecological building design, sustainable livelihoods, and nature conservation - a reality in Matas de Sesimbra, south of Lisbon, as Gail Rajgor reports.
Called up to fight in the Korean War, Mariol would never complete his degree, but took up design as a livelihood after returning from the front.
The LEGS Project aims to continue to provide practical guidance for both field workers and decision makers to design and implement livelihood-based responses in support of pastoralists and other livestock keepers facing drought and other disasters.
We argue that such quantitative assessment is valuable to inform REDD+ policy design on the way livelihood practices and social characteristics are interlinked and how they affect forest cover change.
Thus, the proposed strategic plan should provide strong protection for continuous promotion of land consolidation through the application of a top-down and comprehensive design considering agriculture production, livelihood and ecology as comprehensive targets.
It's not just about providing food locally; we have to design programmes that really support livelihoods".
The government has laid out some very specific conditions, even as it has opened the door to Wal-Mart and others, designed to protect the livelihood of some of India's tens of millions of small shopkeepers.
Community-based Ecotourism is increasingly recognized as a form of sustainable development designed to promote local livelihood, environmental conservation and culture.
Despite a raft of livelihood programs designed to help Indonesian small-scale fishers there are concerns that the needs of the poor are still not being addressed.
