C. Grass roots innovations and rural livelihoods

We are supporting governance, human rights and sustainable rural livelihoods.

Livelihood industries are those, which assure sustainable sources of livelihoods for the rural poor.

Another important thematic area to be covered involves the enhancement of rural community livelihoods through efficient agro supply chains.

Returns from land use projects, for example, could also include the potential to create more sustainable rural livelihoods, enable higher and more resilient agricultural yields, and generate rural employment.

Globally, three quarters of people living in extreme poverty are in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihoods.

That is why Haiti needs the private sector now more than ever to help rebuild both the country and the livelihoods of poor rural people.

The UNU Institute for Natural Resources in Africa will organize a pilot multidisciplinary course in Ghana, Land degradation and management in a rural livelihoods context .

Priorities will include supporting delivery of essential services through the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, and support to improve food security and rural livelihoods, health and education.

In most developing countries, where urban dwellers have better access to education and health services than do rural inhabitants, rural urban migration is a means of improving the access of migrants to such services and of improving their livelihoods.

Protective functions of forest resources. Trees and forests have important benefits for maintaining water resources and for many agricultural systems, and through these contribute to rural livelihoods.

India s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is assisting to repair and restore a range of rural infrastructure, critical for the livelihoods of the poor, including water storage networks in some of the poorest parts of the country, such as Andhra Pradesh.

For sustainable livelihoods

Farmers will be weaned off opium over the long term only if they have sustainable livelihoods. At the moment, Afghanistan s drug lords are prospering, and rural communities are suffering.

Sustainable profits. Sustainable livelihoods.

The concept of livelihoods is directly drawn from the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) to international development.

Improving livelihoods in an urbanizing world

In 2004, UNIFEM, in collaboration with non governmental partners, piloted an initiative in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India to improve the livelihoods of rural women in the non timber forest products sector.

Noting that hundreds of millions of women worldwide live in poverty and that the majority of poor women throughout the world live in rural areas, where their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence and smallholder agriculture,

C. Alternative livelihoods and protecting the environment

Second, and simultaneously, donors should help impoverished countries to invest in roads, ports, rural electricity, and diversified production (both agricultural and non agricultural), in order to promote higher productivity and alternative livelihoods in the longer term.

49. Urges the Government of Afghanistan to promote the development of sustainable livelihoods in the formal production sector as well as other sectors, and to improve access to reasonable and sustainable credit and financing in rural areas, thus improving substantially the lives, health and security of the people, particularly in rural areas

The Rural Development Project for improving livelihoods in rural areas, which is assisting displaced people and local villagers living in two Cambodian provinces with a population of 1.4 million, is an example of triangular cooperation, in this case among Cambodia, four countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations and Japan.

Within the context of globalization, macroeconomic policies, including those related to economic stability, external debt, taxation, investment, employment and markets, have a direct influence on the livelihoods of rural women, in both the formal and informal sectors.

B. Protecting improving the livelihoods of primary producers

We must help to rebuild livelihoods and communities.

Livelihoods destroyed by the tsunami have not been restored.

15. Also reaffirms the need to promote the development of microenterprises and small and medium sized enterprises, including by means of training, education and skill enhancement, with a special focus on agro industry as a provider of livelihoods for rural communities

14. Emphasizes the need to promote the development of microenterprises and small and medium sized enterprises, including by means of training, education and skills enhancement, with a special focus on agro industry as a provider of livelihoods for rural communities

13. Reaffirms the need to promote the development of microenterprises and small and medium sized enterprises, including by means of training, education and skill enhancement, with a special focus on agro industry as a provider of livelihoods for rural communities

12. Reaffirms the need to promote the development of microenterprises and small and medium sized enterprises, including by means of training, education and skill enhancement, with a special focus on agro industry as a provider of livelihoods for rural communities

Expressing deep concern that the number of women and girls living in poverty has increased disproportionately to the number of men, particularly in developing countries, and that the majority live in rural areas where their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence agriculture,

Expressing deep concern that the number of women and girls living in poverty has increased disproportionately to the number of men, particularly in developing countries, and that the majority live in rural areas where their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence agriculture,

Expressing deep concern that the number of women and girls living in poverty has increased disproportionately to the number of men, particularly in developing countries, and that the majority live in rural areas where their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence agriculture,

Expressing deep concern that the number of women and girls living in poverty has increased disproportionately to the number of men, particularly in developing countries, and that the majority live in rural areas where their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence agriculture,

Family members have been lost, homes destroyed, and livelihoods ruined.

Furthermore, rural and dryland development programmes need to be implemented through integrated approaches that have due regard for societal factors such as the security of land tenure, level of decentralization of planning and governance of land resources, and potential for developing alternative livelihoods.

The strategic plan (2004 2007) is to protect livelihoods in crisis situations and enhance resilience to shocks by creating assets, by disaster mitigation and by enabling more sustainable livelihoods.

We must follow up our promises with regard to alternative livelihoods.

The extent of the revenue derived from tourism in many African countries and the crucial role of the effective management of freshwater ecosystems and protection of watershed systems in promoting sustainable agriculture and rural livelihoods underscore the importance attached to environmental issues by African Governments.

Millions of people are now without livelihoods and the means for survival.

The theme for 2005 is Wetlands and water, supporting life, sustaining livelihoods .

(b) How can primary producers' livelihoods be protected improved through South South cooperation?

Following return, they are faced with challenges of reintegration and re establishing livelihoods.

Families have been struck by devastating grief, losing loved ones, homes and livelihoods.