This pilot program utilizes Olam’s AtSource sustainable procurement program to evaluate and support farmer activities to enhance livelihoods, plant trees to reduce GHG emissions and prevent deforestation, provide guidance on efficient fuel use, and improve farmers’ livelihood infrastructure. ...
Goat farming has been around for centuries. Ever since man found that this animal maybe a resource of food, drink and clothing, raising goats has become a sort of livelihood for numerous people. Goat farming is so adaptable that wherever you look internationally, you'll certainly locate agoatr...
Strong social cohesion and high levels of social capital can significantly reduce household vulnerability, enhance livelihood capital, and improve livelihood resilience (Thulstrup, 2015; Quandt, 2018). Considering the social security function of residential land and the subsequent development of farmers’ ...
Poverty and its associated challenges of poor living conditions, inadequate access to water and sanitation, illiteracy, engagement in alternative means of sourcing food and livelihood such as forest activities and inaccessibility to conventional health services is one example why the poor are increasingly...
“Approximately 125 million people worldwide depend on coffee for their livelihood, and 25 million small famers producing 80 percent of the world’s coffee,” said Tony Nanez, North America Head of Commodity Finance, HSBC Global Trade and Receivables Finance. “...
Although Karchick, Star Ikan, and Bugun are considered growing villages, off-farm income generating opportunities are quite limited and agriculture remains the main source of livelihood. Production risks thus bear great weight in farmers’ decision making. A closer look at farmers’ agricultural ...
Good practices under Strategies 10 and 11, Diversify livelihood and income generating activities and Ensure access of children and youth in fishing communities to education, respectively, were rated high due to the abundance of laws, policies, and programs. Regardless, participants identified several ...
To reach the ambitious targets of generating 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022, it is essential that the government creates 330,000 new jobs and livelihood opportunities [15, 16]. A mixture of push policies and pull mechanisms, accompanied by particular strategies should promote the development ...
How these farmers perform determines their own livelihood, but also affects global food security and ecosystem health. Here, Fusuo Zhang and colleagues show how some straightforward interventions have substantially improved the productivity and environmental performance of smallholder farmers across China ...
In this regard, some low-trophic aquatic products, such as seaweed represent an important source of primary livelihood in low-income countries and are an excellent source of fiber and micronutrients, besides being the only non-animal source of vitamin B12 (FAO, 2018). Lastly, seaweed is just ...