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

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

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

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

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

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

However, it is difficult for single Afghan women without male family support to live independent lives outside shelters.

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.

Procedural issues Substantiation of the alleged violation exhaustion of domestic remedies

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

Cattle herding allowed nomads to create livelihoods in an increasingly unpredictable and challenging environment, characterized by an arid climate and scarce resources.

Fishing piracy also undermines the livelihoods of law abiding fishermen in the United States and Europe.

Mining and mass renewable energy infrastructure expand heavily in Sápmi, with severe impacts on Saami livelihoods.

Subsequently a paper was prepared on ways to support Portuguese speaking LDCs.

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

In South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, sustainable livelihood projects and programmes will continue to be developed and implemented in the opium poppy growing areas.

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

When resources are scarce, or so degraded that they can no longer sustain livelihoods, or inequitably distributed, conflict invariably ensues.

The strategy adopted concentrated on fighting the pest, and insufficient attention was given to mitigating the impact of the infestation on local livelihoods and the environment.

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

The aim is to break the vicious cycle of poverty through identification and propagation of alternative livelihoods and the sustainability of the opium poppy elimination programmes that have been successfully implemented in the region.

The key issues are the methods of eradication the pace and scope of counter narcotics activities and the respective roles and sequencing of eradication, interdiction and provision of alternative livelihoods.

So, we all know about the Narmada river, the tragedies of dams, the tragedies of huge projects which displace people and wreck river systems without providing livelihoods.

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.

Every State is constantly studying ways to enable its people to live in a safe world, and the United Nations is at the forefront of gathering and sharing the accumulated knowledge and experience of Member States in that regard.

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.

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.

Consequently, there is a need to continue strengthening women's right to safe motherhood, as one way of enhancing their economic and social development.

They also recognize that poverty is much more widespread among women, thus increasingly compelling them to find livelihoods in agriculture or the informal sector.

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

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.

We must therefore seek to enhance our cooperation and leverage our regional, multilateral, and bilateral dialogues and relationships to ensure the integrity and efficacy of these efforts.

I would much rather live in a slum than in a building.

5. Reaffirms that essential goods such as food and medicines should not be used as tools for political coercion and that under no circumstances should people be deprived of their own means of subsistence and development

Rakan Muda Young Friends is an outreach programme that addresses social ills by offering avenues for young people between the age of 15 to 25 to fill their time productively through nine lifestyle programme packages.

These services comprise post harvest systems in the food sector, fibre processing, product innovation and diversification for enhanced market access, and enhancing rural community livelihood through efficient agro supply chains.

Female wage labour is still viewed as a solution of last resort for households in desperate straits and their wage rates are normally only half the level of men's, or even less.

The Years of Living Tactically

I want to live here.

I learned to live without her.

Most of the new jobs over the next few decades will be created in cities, offering livelihoods to hundreds of millions of young people and, as China and Brazil have demonstrated, helping to slash extreme poverty.

The scant attention given to disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programmes in post conflict situations is a major cause of the circulation of arms as currency and a means of exchange and livelihood by ex combatants.

Comment by the Administration. The IMIS Support Unit of the Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts together with the Accounts Division and its Systems Support Section, continues to seek further ways of streamlining and automating the consolidation process.

I want to live in the country.