Exploring Community Health Through the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework

The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach: A Framework for Knowledge Integration Assessment

A number of recent approaches to sustainable development, such as the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach, are genuinely transdisciplinary as they are produced, disseminated and applied in the borderland between research, policy, and practice. Human Ecology has the capacity to contribute to a better understanding and a critical evaluation of such new approaches, but is currently lacking the tools ...

Governance and Sustainable Livelihoods

Sustainable Livelihoods Guidance Sheets

Effective policies, institutions and processes (PIP) are recognised as essential in sustaining livelihoods. Together, they shape poor people’s livelihood options. Although the importance of policy and institutional issues is widely recognised, approaches to reform are generally poorly understood. This section of the Guidance Sheets focuses on the concepts, methods and tools needed to help desig...

United Nations Development Programme Sustainable Livelihoods Basic Education for Sustainable Livelihoods: The Right Questions?

Improving animal health for poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods.

Animals are vital to ensuring food security for individuals, families and communities in countries around the world. In this, the latest article in Veterinary Record's series promoting One Health, Andy Stringer, director of veterinary programmes at the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad, discusses how improving animal health, particularly of poultry and working equids, has the potenti...