Professor Nick Mascie-Taylor (Professor of Human Population Biology and Health at the University of Cambridge) explains the importance of nutrition-related factors in combating poverty and suffering in the developing world. This detailed, but enjoyable and very easy to follow lecture is divided into 5 separate videos of approximately 10 minutes each.
Professor Mascie-Taylor works closely with DFID Livelihoods on several of its projects, and is acknowledged to be one of the world experts in his subject area.
Duration : 0:9:38
Hurricane Dean affected the farm’s production on Windward Islands where the small-scale farmers suffered the lost of their crops. With the support of the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Humanitarian Office of the European Union (ECHO), Oxfam’s response was focused on helping small-scale farmers to recover their livelihoods.
John Barrett (Head of the DFID Food Group) presents the results of the July 2009 DFID Food Group workshop and their next steps in light of the recent White Paper.
Roland Hodson guides us around the work that the Chars Livelihood programme is doing to help some of the poorest communities on earth.
6.5mins from the 26minute original shows how silage making instruction is incorporated into this successful Kenya made TV drama as part of a livelihoods support programme. Made by www.mediae.org with support from DfID
Kate Conroy, one of the facilitators at the May 2009 sustainable livelihoods workshop ‘Making it Happen in Asia’, explains what she feels the workshop achieved and just why it was so successful.
Duncan King explains how DFID’s work to improve the livelihoods of some of India’s poorest through the Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project (MPRLP)
Professor Nick Mascie-Taylor (Professor of Human Population Biology and Health at the University of Cambridge) explains the importance of nutrition-related factors in combating poverty and suffering in the developing world. This detailed, but enjoyable and very easy to follow lecture is divided into 5 separate videos of approximately 10 minutes each. 
Andrew Long describes the work that DFID and partners are doing to provide infrastructure like roads in remote areas of Yemen. This work is essential if isolated communities are to pull themselves out of poverty.
Jane Clark, DFID Deputy Head Livelihoods, and former Head of the DFID Sustainable Livelihoods Support Office, shares some reflections on the evolution of Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches within DFID.