Sustainable Livelihoods with a water pump and high yield farming for the poor.
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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.
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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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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.
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Over the last 10 years the Kup district has been transformed from one of PNGs most violent areas to one of it’s most peaceful. The work of Kup Women for Peace has resulted in community policing, clean water, livelihoods projects, better health care and an HIV/AIDS hospice.
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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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Niamh Garvey of Trocaire speaks about climate change and livelihoods.
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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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Related case study: Mobile sales contribute to poverty reduction – GrupoNueva’s Amanco http://www.wbcsd.org/plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?ObjectId=MTYxNDk
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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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Villagers in North Bali(Bukti)make pindang(sweet and sour fish)by boiling/cooking them, using traditional stoves. Ready-to-eat fish are sent to markets through intermediaries before they reach consumers.
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