Livelihoods
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We depend on them to regulate the climate and rainfall, clean our air and water, sustain myriad species of plants and animals, and support the
livelihoods
of over a billion people.
Moreover, governments that are now focused narrowly on microeconomic issues need to devote the same level of attention and commitment to designing and implementing social policies that focus explicitly on ensuring the livelihoods, health, education, and housing of the most vulnerable segments of the population.
Our livelihoods, not to mention those of future generations, should not be held hostage by our ongoing addiction to fossil fuels.
This rich habitat supports remarkable biodiversity – or did before the oil companies got there – and more than 30 million local inhabitants, who depend on the local ecosystems for their health and
livelihoods.
According to a recent report by the World Bank, some 800 million people in South Asia currently reside in areas where rising temperatures and erratic rainfall are threatening
livelihoods
and reducing living standards.
Yet in 2005, the United Nations Security Council rightly decided to discuss Operation Murambatsvina, under which the Zimbabwe government destroyed the homes of 700,000 people and the
livelihoods
of at least 20% of Zimbabwe’s poor population.
Each year, 12 million new workers join the labor force, and they will need the tools and skills to ensure their future
livelihoods.
You will not be rooting for the recovery of
livelihoods
that Venezuelans deserve after having lived through this nightmare.
On the Thai coast, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 4,500 fishing vessels were smashed, jeopardizing the
livelihoods
of 120,000 people in fishing villages there.
We have seen how financial engineering in the United States can determine economic growth in every part of the world; how carbon-dioxide emissions from China end up influencing crop yields and
livelihoods
in Vietnam, Bangladesh, the Maldives, and beyond; how an epidemic in Mexico endangers the rhythm of public life in the US; or how volcanic ash from Iceland affects travel across Europe.
The fact is that nature is already being bought and sold, mined and marketed at knock-down prices that fail to capture its real worth, especially to the
livelihoods
of the poor.
But, while governments should welcome opportunities for economic growth and job creation, they should not allow companies to damage the environment and threaten residents’ health and
livelihoods.
Rather, they fight to protect their own interests and livelihoods, whether that be operating a dairy farm or running a government.
They supply 50% of the oxygen we breathe, feed billions of people, and provide
livelihoods
for millions more.
Though skills training and lifelong learning are needed to equip workers for the jobs of the future, such measures will not be sufficient to ensure decent
livelihoods.
The countries in which people are least able to sustain their
livelihoods
in the face of unexpected shocks, and in which food and farming systems are the least resilient, offer the least protection.
Family members have been lost, homes destroyed, and
livelihoods
ruined.
The report’s argument in favor of free trade is not new, nor is its recommendation that “active labor-market policies” be used to cushion the blow of lost jobs and
livelihoods.
Globally, three-quarters of people living in extreme poverty are in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their
livelihoods.
So would citizens whose
livelihoods
are being destroyed by governments’ desperate attempts to de-leverage.
Above all, they fear globalization, which, in their view, has brought the menacing “other” into their daily lives and undermined their livelihoods, while benefiting only the elites.
Thus, environmental pressures are now hitting the bottom line – affecting incomes and
livelihoods
around the world.
In a country where two-thirds of the population is still dependent on agriculture and small holdings are all that a majority of Indians live on, the new law helps those who have often felt exploited and deprived of their
livelihoods
by the state’s power of eminent domain.
It will even compensate tenant farmers for their loss of
livelihoods
and require that those displaced by land acquisition be offered employment in the institutions that displace them.
Goals include strengthening the health and wellbeing of over a billion people; reducing the environmental footprint associated with the production and use of our products; and enhancing the
livelihoods
of millions of workers.
Urbanization is a powerful determinant of productivity growth and improved
livelihoods.
Expanded opportunities in urban housing markets are imperative, but access to rural land and
livelihoods
are also important.
Insecure EuropeMADRID – For the last five years, Europe has been shaken by financial and economic convulsions that have wreaked havoc on many of its citizens’
livelihoods.
In the late 1940’s and the 1950’s, the Cold War and fears that the Red Menace would sap American resolve from within led to myriad anti-subversive programs, with tens of thousands of Americans losing their
livelihoods
as a result.
With the right knowledge, people can build resilience to climate change, thereby safeguarding their
livelihoods.
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