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Livelihood is defined as adequate
stocks and flow of food and cash to meet basic
needs.
Security refers to secure ownership of, or access
to, resources and income earning activities,
including reserves and assets to offset risk,
ease shocks and meet contingencies.
Sustainable refers to the maintenance or enhancement
of resource productivity on a long term basis. |
When poor people have secure
rights and adequate stocks of assets to deal with
contingencies, they tend to take a long view, holding
on to their land, protecting and saving trees and
seeking to provide for their children. Their time
perspective is then longer than that of commercial
interests concerned with early profits from capital.
We believe that a sustainable livelihood security
is a precondition for a stable community in the long
term. Only when livelihoods are secure does it become
rational for poor people to limit family size. Securing
sustainable livelihoods in resource-poor and forest
areas is also the surest protection for the environment.
The poor are not the problem, they are the solution.
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