Editing International development (section)

====Livelihoods====
{{See also|Sustainable agriculture}}

This is concerned with ensuring that all people are able to make a living for themselves and provide themselves with an adequate standard of living, without compromising their human rights and while maintaining dignity.

The first Millennium Development Goal is to ''reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day'' and ''reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from [[hunger]]''.

The concept of livelihoods is directly drawn from the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) to international development. The approach and subsequent practical framework is credited to Robert Chambers, who, writing from the mid-1980s and onward, was interested in fostering efficiency in development cooperation. The approach was later developed and utilized by the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID). The approach is considered to be more comprehensive than previous theories and methodology of "conventional" development initiatives. The core concepts include: taking a holistic view, building on community and individual strengths, focusing on linking both macro and micro-level thinking, sustainability, and maintaining a dynamic and ever-evolving framework. [http://www.nccr-pakistan.org/publications_pdf/General/SLA_Gamper_Kollmair.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727113428/http://www.nccr-pakistan.org/publications_pdf/General/SLA_Gamper_Kollmair.pdf |date=2011-07-27 }}