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| | | Sustainable Fishery Livelihoods |
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|  | | Sustainable livelihoods (SL) is a way of thinking about the objectives, scope and priorities for development in order to enhance progress in poverty elimination. It is a holistic approach that tries to capture, and provide, a means of understanding the vital causes and dimensions of poverty without collapsing the focus onto just a few factors (economic issues, food security, etc.). It also tries to sketch out the relationships between the different aspects (causes, manifestations) of poverty, allowing for more effective prioritization of action at an operational level. | | | | The SL approach (or approaches - given that there is no set way of doing things) aims to help people achieve lasting livelihood improvements measured using poverty indicators that they, themselves, define. This, in turn helps to combat exclusion. It is people-centred. It recognises that people have certain rights but also certain responsibilities to each other and to society more generally. It recognizes the enormous diversity amongst the 1.3 billion extremely poor people in the world, and stresses the strengths of these people. If we want to make a difference we must build on these strengths, helping people to move in the directions that they want to move. | | | | SL approaches rest on core principles that prioritise people-centred, responsive, and multi-level approaches to development. These are backed up with a set of tools, including the SL framework developed by the British Department for International Development (DFID).
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 | | | | | | | Title | POVERTY IN COASTAL FISHING COMMUNITIES
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| | Author(s) / Editor(s) | Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research | | Description | Combating poverty is high on the agenda of governments and the international community. Currently, there are few hard data and analyses on the nature and extent of poverty in fishing communities, on the relative importance of different causes of poverty and on the most effective actions to alleviate poverty. Currently, among FAO's regular and field programme activities only the UK-funded Sustainable Livelihoods Programme has a focus and thrust on poverty alleviation in fishing communities. Many other FI activities are explicitly or implicitly addressing poverty but the extent to which these activities contribute to poverty reduction is not well known and a more direct targeting of poor people may be warranted. | | Keywords | POVERTY ALLEVIATION; SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES; SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS APPROACH | |
| Content Language(s) | English | |
| Web Address | http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/MEETING/003/X8905E.HTM | |
| Type of Document | Paper: Conference paper | | Document Status | Finished | |
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| Tina Farmer
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