The recovery process represents a shift in focus from saving lives to restoring livelihoods, building resilience and reducing vulnerability.

Facilitating the reorientation of national and regional agricultural research programming to take desertification affected livelihoods better into account

Rapid environmental change associated with insecurity and losses of livelihoods undermine the resilience of societies and increase their vulnerability.

Israeli actions target entire communities, preventing people from practising their livelihoods, from attending schools and universities or visiting health and social institutions.

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

Livelihoods destroyed by the tsunami have not been restored.

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

The livelihood component includes learning processes concerning skills development involving existing alternative sources of income such as abaca fibre production, handicraft making and cash crop production.

The organizations involved are also discussing cooperation on new initiatives to assist local populations with safe food production and improved health care and in regaining control over their own livelihoods.

As part of this project, which began implementation in 2003, an integrated basic education cum livelihood development module for children and adults has been prepared.

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 region has not recovered the livelihoods lost as a result of the nuclear accident.

When people don't have to worry about making a living, people will get along better.

In a country that has been a battlefield for so long, the main means of survival is still petty trading.

The vast region and the diversified methods of earning a living contributed to illegal possession of arms.

For a time, I actually dreamed of becoming a political reporter, chasing lawmakers down the corridors of power for a living.

In both cases, the long standing conflict led to the collapse of local livelihoods (either directly or indirectly, owing to the collapse of the local economy), which in turn reduced the resilience of the local population to natural hazards.

Conversely, major disasters, or the accumulation of risk from smaller but regular events, may cause environmental problems that impact on livelihoods and development options, for example where biodiversity is undermined.

Agriculture provides the main livelihood for 55.4 percent of the population.

Attitudes still persist that a woman's place is the home while earning a livelihood is a man's job.

In the Andean region, continued support to sustainable livelihood schemes remains of high importance.

6. Encourages developing countries, with the necessary support of donor countries and the international community, to formulate specific commodity policies so as to contribute to the facilitation of trade expansion, the reduction of vulnerability and the improvement of livelihood and food security, by

The Williams Treaties concerned however lands in close proximity of urbanization and protection of these rights for subsistence were not an issue.

Convinced that all people have the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well being of themselves and their families, including food, medical care, necessary social services and security in the event of lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond their control,

The establishment of rights for indigenous people and local communities is prerequisite for improving the livelihoods of these millions of forest inhabitants.

However, the Kahoku Shimpo also reports that nearly half of people in coastal settlements feel that earning a livelihood has gotten tougher since the disaster.

Providing permanent shelter and rebuilding livelihoods require careful community consultations in order to avoid any involuntary resettlement.

It is important that, from the outset, the goal is to reduce risk while simultaneously creating sustainable livelihood options.

That situation had severe psychological effects on the Palestinian population and prevented the Palestinians living in the occupied territories from earning a decent living.

The absorption capacity of Hafun had been reached, and on average, fishermen are wealthier than most Somalis.

Field reviews also highlighted the importance of support to livelihoods for such children, which will be a major challenge to partners.

And they all treat learning, not as some sort of academic, analytical activity, but as that's something that's productive, something you make, something that you can do, perhaps earn a living from.

The continued practice of laying landmines in fields and forests, and the lack of mine clearance, has had a negative impact upon the freedom of movement of civilians and their economic right to earn a living.

Militarisation and the presence of security forces have created many roadblocks restricting the movements of the indigenous peoples in their foraging for food, harvesting, hunting and fishing.

Despite their ideological differences, governments throughout the region have delivered rapid economic growth and improved their populations livelihoods.

A worker voice in transition planning will go a long way towards ensuring that no worker is asked to choose between his or her livelihood and a sustainable future.

They recognize that, while their supporters may be devout Muslims, they also need to earn a living empty hotels and beaches would be economically disastrous.

Despite efforts to diversify, most households in rural areas still depend on land and natural resources for their basic subsistence.

That crop, which provides a living for much of Chad's population, is dangerously threatened by the protectionist practices of developed countries.

The reintegration programme includes the promotion of educational activities, a skills training and employment programme and livelihood support.

They're amazing creatures that really change how you view the world because they're not that different from us They're trying to make a living, they're trying to raise their offspring, they're trying to get on and survive in the world.

We need to turn rural areas into vibrant and economically stable communities that provide opportunities for young people to earn a living, build their capacities, and start a family.

The transformation of grasslands into deserts due to deforestation, encroachment into forests for subsistence farming, overgrazing, and loss of biodiversity and soil threaten the entire continent.

Imagine the obstacles 500 million young people entering the workforce over the next 10 years young people with little opportunity to earn a living will face.

The Framework for Action listed among key activities the development of early warning systems that are people centred and take into account the demographic, gender, cultural and livelihood characteristics of the target audiences.