Sustainable Livelihoods with a water pump and high yield farming for the poor.
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The Sashya Shilpa Abhiyan, a sustainable livelihood program, initiated by Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Vedanta, has been adopted in the Lanjigarh area of Kalahandi district, to increase agricultural productivity of the farmers resulting in enhancement in their quality of life. This program includes training of farmers in commercially viable & sustainable agriculture, organic farming, irrigation management by diverting streams or by using the water lifting procedure and use of integrated pest management methods. Material help in terms of seed, bio-fertilizers, & pesticides are also provided.
Today thanks to the Sashya Shilpa Abhiyan program, the farmers in Lanjigarh have increased their household income by 200 percent. This is proof of the fact that agriculture & industry can mutually complement each other to promote integrated growth of the society as a whole.
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In this short and catchy clip, DuPont CEO Holliday — a past WBCSD Chairman — argues that companies must “take actionable first steps” toward creating sustainable livelihoods, or risk extinction.
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Meratus Mountain Area, Kalimantan, Indonesia
The Dayak Meratus communities have created co-operatives that protect local resources and develop business institutions. The communities use non-timber forest products such as rubber to generate sustainable livelihoods. However, the encroachment of private businesses on the local forestland for large scale oil palm plantations, mining and forest concessions threaten their way of life and have forced them to respond.
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Lloyd Timberlake, Director of Special Projects for GrupoNueva S.A. and Peter Woicke, Executive Vice President of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) give their views on whether sustainable livelihoods business can be profitable.
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Julio Moura, CEO of GrupoNueva shares the challenges faced by his and other Latin American companies in implementing sustainable livelihoods businesses including, shifting mindset to think of the poor as part of the solution instead of victims; negotiating unfavorable framework conditions and the battle against big scale corruption.
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This video illustrates how companies operating in developing countries can act as positive agents of change and contribute to creating better livelihoods.
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The Livelihoods Network held our 3rd Annual Workshop on the 12th -15th November 2007 at Harborne Hall in Birmingham (U.K.). The overall aim of workshop was to continue peer support and knowledge-sharing on the application and relevance of Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLA) to current development issues. This video documentation from the workshop was created so that those who weren’t able to attend can get some feel for the atmosphere and creativity of the event and its participants. We hope this will stimulate further interest in the Network and even more participants at the next event! More information on the workshop can be found in the workshop report and the workshop blog. For more info on the Network contact livelihoods-connect@ids.ac.uk
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http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/shidhulai Shidhulai won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2007. To find out more visit the link above and check out the Ashden Awards Blog http://ashdenawards.blogspot.com
Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha was founded in 1998 to help poor, marginalised communities living in the remote Chalanbeel region of Bangladesh to develop sustainable livelihoods. Shidhulai has achieved this by building up a fleet of flat-bottomed boats, all made with locally available materials, that make their way through the shallow rivers and canals of the Chalanbeel to bring a range of educational services and renewable energy supplies to water-side families. The boats use solar PV modules to generate all the electricity they need to provide daily classes in primary education for children, libraries, training in sustainable agriculture, health advice, mobile phone and internet access and battery-charging facilities. Shidhulai has also provided villagers with 13,500 solar-home-systems, 2,500 lanterns and 15,000 bicycle pumps that deliver between 60 and 100 litres of water per minute - enough to irrigate half a hectare of land during the dry season. By putting into practice the agricultural techniques they have learnt on the boats and using the renewable energy devices, farmers have been able to significantly increase their income and reduce the use of synthetic pesticides, with about one third of farmers eliminating their use altogether.
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Ernest Mupunga from Practical Action Zimbabwe reflects on the seminar on Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches and Community Driven Development
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