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Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods or SOIL is an American nonprofit developmental aid organization co-founded by Sasha Kramer and Sarah Brownell in 2006. [1] Its goal is to develop integrated approaches to the problems of poverty , poor public health , agricultural productivity , and environmental destruction in Haiti .
In 1992 Robert Chambers and Gordon Conway [10] proposed the following composite definition of a sustainable rural livelihood, which is applied most commonly at the household level: "A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (stores, resources, claims and access) and activities required for a means of living: a livelihood is sustainable ...
Trickle Up was founded by American philanthropists Glen and Mildred Robbins Leet in 1974 with ten participants in Dominica. [2] The name refers to trickle up economic theory and opposes Reagan era trickle down economics. In 1997, Trickle Up moved from the Leets’ basement into its first office, and by 1999, Trickle Up has supported women to ...
Sustainable design encompasses the development of appropriate technology, which is a staple of sustainable living practices. [9] Sustainable development in turn is the use of these technologies in infrastructure. Sustainable architecture and agriculture are the most common examples of this practice. [10]
Alternative Livelihood Programs are the name given to government attempts, especially in South America to replace the illicit cultivation of banned substances, such as opium or coca, with alternative, legal crops or other activities as a source of income. Alternative Livelihood has sometimes been referred as Alternative Development.
The American Society of Addiction Medicine surveyed each state’s Medicaid program to determine which medications are covered and if any limitations exist. It found that many states’ Medicaid programs either won’t pay for drugs like methadone, place dosage limits on a patient’s prescription for buprenorphine or require counseling that ...
In 1992 Robert Chambers and Gordon Conway [8] proposed the following composite definition of a sustainable rural livelihood, which is applied most commonly at the household level: "A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (stores, resources, claims and access) and activities required for a means of living: a livelihood is sustainable ...
Robert Chambers and Gordon Conway provided the first elaborated definition of the concept of sustainable livelihoods, which reads: a livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (stores, resources, claims and access) and activities required for a means of living: a livelihood is sustainable which can cope with and recover from stress and ...