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Several African countries are already experiencing reduced rainfall, soil degradation, and the depletion of precious natural resources, which has a direct impact on the
livelihoods
of two-thirds of Sub-Saharan Africans.
What the region needs are policies aimed at generating new
livelihoods
rather than reinforcing dependency; public-health campaigns that address the lifestyle issues (smoking and drinking) that undermine health across the former Soviet Union; and community development initiatives that promote self-reliance and a return to normalcy.
The
livelihoods
and lives of millions of people are at risk.
As a development specialist working on the ground in the drylands, I know that no military solution can stabilize this vast region as long as people remain hungry, face famines, lack water, and are without
livelihoods
and hope.
As a result, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is facing growing demands from the country’s well-educated and affluent middle class for greater transparency and accountability in the institutions on which their careers and
livelihoods
depend.
Likewise, China’s property law was debated for years, as conservative forces, with the support of various media outlets, resisted marketization and privatization in defense of older citizens whose
livelihoods
continued to depend on the “iron rice bowl” of state ownership.
Those on the front line of protecting lives and
livelihoods
can’t go it alone.
We need to protect vulnerable populations, including indigenous peoples, and we need financial incentives to preserve forests and the
livelihoods
of those who depend on them.
Instead of constantly fearing for their livelihoods, self-employed people, such as small-scale producers and vendors, could engage in more strategic decision-making, taking advantage of their enhanced bargaining power against traders, middlemen, creditors, and landlords.
Done properly, protecting rain forests is a cost-effective method both to abate climate change and to provide sustainable
livelihoods
for many millions of people now living in rural poverty.
Approximately 300 million people depend on the South China Sea’s marine resources for their livelihoods; should China continue on its current course, the risk of massive economic dislocation will grow.
And it is coming to an end at a time when economic populism is replacing technocratic management, often with white males turning to nativism in response to the destruction of their jobs and
livelihoods
by the impersonal forces of globalization.
This year’s snowmelt caused landslides and flooding – a warning of more soil erosion and destruction of arable land to come; hundreds died and thousands lost their
livelihoods.
Embracing the New Age of AutomationLONDON – Ever since early-nineteenth-century textile workers destroyed the mechanical looms that threatened their livelihoods, debates over automation have conjured gloom-and-doom scenarios about the future of work.
With another era of automation upon us, how nervous about the future of our own
livelihoods
should we be?
Millions of people are now without
livelihoods
and the means for survival.
Fishing piracy also undermines the
livelihoods
of law-abiding fishermen in the United States and Europe.
Making matters worse, the shift from mixed-use or indigenous systems of raising livestock to large-scale operations jeopardizes rural livelihoods, particularly in developing countries.
Sometimes, a lack of professional freedom prevents those who may be most familiar with the data – for example, analysts whose
livelihoods
depend on the government(s) involved in the conflict – from using their expertise for purposes that could be politically damaging.
When it is absent or deficient, the loss of life and
livelihoods
can be horrific – witness Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged Haiti and New Orleans in 2005.
When put in the service of sustainable development, such a model will often involve projecting the impact of interventions on
livelihoods
and the environment over several decades.
As the examples above show, conservation and improved
livelihoods
for the rural poor are feasible, and even mutually reinforcing.
But just a few weeks later, the AWF launched a feasibility study to improve
livelihoods
and climate-change resilience throughout Mozambique’s Inhambane Province, where the storm struck.
Farmers will be weaned off opium over the long term only if they have sustainable
livelihoods.
Not only have they contributed substantially less to climate change; they are also suffering its worst effects, including food shortages and the loss of livelihoods, brought about by increasingly extreme and frequent weather events like floods and droughts.
Agriculture, predominantly subsistence farming, employs over 60% of the African workforce, implying widespread destruction of livelihoods, to say nothing of increased food insecurity as crops are disrupted.
Greening Financial ReformSEOUL – Trillions of dollars in “green finance” – that is, low-carbon, resource-efficient investment – are needed annually to prevent climate change and natural constraints from stalling the global economy and threatening the
livelihoods
of billions of people.
Economic growth and new jobs are crucial to improving people’s
livelihoods
now and to ensuring the prosperity of future generations.
It’s long past time for a far more realistic approach, in which the Security Council pushes Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, and Israel into a pragmatic peace that ends the bloodshed and allows the Syrian people to resume their lives and
livelihoods.
The debate around opening the retail sector to foreign investment is currently being framed, on the one hand, by the need to modernize supply chains and, on the other hand, by the desire to protect small shopkeepers’
livelihoods.
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