Thriving rural market in the Philippines, where local residents get their groceries, including fresh vegetables, meat, staples, and dry goods.
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Rural Market, Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines
DFID Livelihoods Lecture - Nutrition (Part 1): Poverty, undernutrition and disease
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
River erosion project, Gaibandha, Bangladesh
This Practical Action project aims to address the development needs of the communities, who have been displaced by river erosion and those who are living under the threat of being eroded in the near future.
Gaibandha is located in northern Bangladesh at the confluence of the two major rivers, which makes the area vulnerable to floods and river erosion. Frequent disasters make life here much more difficult than the rest of country, by depriving people of land, employment opportunities and basic service facilities.
Duration : 0:5:27
DuPont CEO on the Importance of the WBCSD’s SL Project
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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More info about the WBCSD’s Development Focus Area: http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=p&id=Njc&doOpen=1&ClickMenu=LeftMenu
Duration : 0:1:2
Building peace in Papua New Guinea
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.
Duration : 0:5:23
Will the SL Approach Make a Difference to the Bottom Line?
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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More info about the WBCSD’s Development Focus Area: http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=p&id=Njc&doOpen=1&ClickMenu=LeftMenu
Duration : 0:1:33
GrupoNueva: Challenges in Doing Business with the Poor
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
Duration : 0:2:18
Francisco Whitaker talks about the World Future Council
Francisco (’Chico’) Whitaker Ferreira is a Roman Catholic activist, who has worked for democracy and against corruption throughout his life, both at home in Brazil and in exile. As Executive Secretary to the National Council of Brazilian Bishop’s (CNBB) Commission of Justice and Peace (CBJP) Whitaker has been instrumental in the conception, development, and implementation of an anti-corruption bill in Brazil. He is also co-founder of the burgeoning World Social Forum (WSF) a large conference event, parallel to the World Economic Forum in Davos, to share the various insights of those from around the world who are working for alternatives to “world domination by capital, within the parameters of neoliberalism”. The idea has been a great success and the annual Forums have become platforms for civil society organizations from all around the world to exchange views, form coalitions, work on concrete strategies and coordinate campaigns. He received the “Right Livelihood” Award in 2006.
Duration : 0:3:37
Portuguese: The business case for sustainable livelihoods
This video illustrates how companies operating in developing countries can act as positive agents of change and contribute to creating better livelihoods.
Duration : 0:7:49
John Barrett interview: next steps for DFID’s Food Group
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.
Duration : 0:5:2