Sustainable livelihood news

Stay updated with the latest global news on Sustainable livelihood, highlighting innovative strategies and community led and community based action.

2025

The Right Livelihood Award - also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize” - goes to Audrey Tang and others, Daily Alternative (Oct 04, 2025)
Working less is the most underrated climate solution, sower.world (May 14, 2025)
Making light work: solar’s potential to lift rural Indians out of poverty, positive.news (Apr 30, 2025)
The local women saving Yucatán’s mangroves, ‘It has been worth it’, news.mongabay.com (Apr 25, 2025)
Distributed energy is driving Latin America’s energy transition, dialogue.earth (Apr 22, 2025)
The unlikely comeback of one of Brazil’s rarest parrots, news.mongabay.com (Apr 14, 2025)
In a Mumbai district, families’ lives are transformed when their rooftops become solar generators [Earth5R], Daily Alternative (Mar 31, 2025)
Young beekeeper’s initiative brings hope and profit to Sierra Leone communities, news.mongabay.com (Mar 31, 2025)
Why I’m training Colombian Amazonians to become archaeology tourist guides, theconversation.com (Mar 18, 2025)
The Mexican women who defied drug-dealers, fly-tippers and chauvinists to build a thriving business, theguardian.com (Mar 11, 2025)
‘Diversion’ trees to protect shea trees and their livelihoods planted by women in Ghana, news.mongabay.com (Mar 08, 2025)
The dream to restore a special forest taking root in the high Andes, news.mongabay.com (Feb 14, 2025)
‘We can’t believe you would just trust us’: why social assistance shouldn’t come with strings attached, theconversation.com (Jan 02, 2025)

Bamboo bonanza: how a village in India used its forest to go from poverty to prosperity, theguardian.com (Dec 17, 2024)
Resilient farming in northern Ghana, Agroecology blueprint for other drought-prone regions across Africa, news.mongabay.com (Dec 05, 2024)

Spain introduces paid climate leave after deadly floods, theguardian.com (Nov 29, 2024)
Natural forest regeneration reverses drought and helps rebuild communities in Ethiopia, theenergymix.com (Nov 27, 2024)

Growing back a forest for his people, a one-time illegal logger in Sumatra, news.mongabay.com (Aug 30, 2024)
The resilience of women farmers in Chad battling climate challenges and social barriers, news.mongabay.com (Aug 29, 2024)
Hope from Nepal’s first community-based red panda conservation area, news.mongabay.com (Aug 29, 2024)
Unrest in Bangladesh reflects young people’s struggle to find decent work in the world’s poorest nations, theconversation.com (Aug 20, 2024)
Women in the Sundarbans embracing mangrove restoration as an alternative livelihood, news.mongabay.com (Aug 15, 2024)

Green economy could generate 3.3m jobs across Africa by 2030 – report, theguardian.com (Jul 26, 2024)
African island state embraces the hunters to end turtle hunting, news.mongabay.com (Jul 17, 2024)
This LA Restaurant Serves Up Empowerment for Refugees, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 12, 2024)

Right to manage a Brazilian state park celebrated by fishing community, news.mongabay.com (May 28, 2024)
International development can tackle the climate and migration crises together, theconversation.com (May 21, 2024)
Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests?, theguardian.com (May 01, 2024) — More than half of the country’s forestry is in community and Indigenous hands – and from CO2 absorption to reducing poverty the results are impressive

Farming support to communities living near wildlife reserve in Cameroon lowers rates of hunting, news.mongabay.com (Dec 19, 2023)
Papua New Guinea's two large new marine protected areas “one of the first and most ambitious community-led MPA wins”, news.mongabay.com (Dec 14, 2023)
Sea sponges offer lifeline to women in Zanzibar, bbc.com/future (Sep 13, 2023)
Agroforestry chocolate helping save the world’s most endangered rainforest, by Liz Kimbrough, news.mongabay.com (Sep 12, 2023)
You don’t want a “deadlihood” - you want an “alivelihood”. In Gandhi’s spirit of swaraj, here’s a new approach to education and work from India, The Daily Alternative (Jun 28, 2023)
Uganda’s Communal Food ‘Epicenters’ Aim to End Hunger Forever, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 26, 2023) — Pushing past the conventional food aid model, a regenerative farming system offers a recipe for success — and self-reliance. Peter Yeung
Small Farmers and Entrepreneurs Offer New Hope for Africa’s Degraded Lands, wri.org (Apr 16, 2023)

Trees, tools and training, Tree Aid (May 11, 2022) — Tree Aid working with entrepreneurs to grow sustainable businesses in Africa's drylands

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