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How does the environment affect the poor?. Lauren Franck SIO 209: Poverty & the Environment March 30, 2010. Halving poverty?. The key Millennium Goal of halving poverty in a decade [by 2015] cannot be met without better environmental protection, according to a new report. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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How does the environment affect the poor?Lauren FranckSIO 209: Poverty & the EnvironmentMarch 30, 2010
Halving poverty?
The key Millennium Goal of halving poverty in a decade [by 2015] cannot be met without better environmental protection, according to a new report. “But unless the importance of the environment is grasped and acted upon, the report concludes that the key Millennium Goal on poverty will not be met.”-BBC News
World Resources 2005
Key Points
Economic growth (that aids the poor) begins with natural resources
Most of the world’s impoverished societies are rural and their livelihoods are directly tied to water, forests, and fields
Nations can take a bottom-up approach to growth that begins with those natural resources that the poor already use/interact with
Namibia Community-based Natural Resource
Management Conservancies run by elected locals, who
are given user rights over wildlife by the government User rights held by committees, not directly
by households Zebra, oryx, kudu, and springbok
populations are rebounding Rural/poor communities gaining cash, jobs,
and game meat Women’s livelihoods and status have
improved
India
Maharashta state- suffers from droughtsVillage-based water management results in
more independent communities Increased wells and subsistence crops have
reduced women’s household labor
Tanzania
UN initiated, Tanzanian government led HASHI program
Restores native vegetation (trees) in enclosures, reverting to traditional land management Ngitili (from agriculture)
Improved local diets, raised incomes, brought back local wildlife and increased biodiversity
Indonesia
Local people trained to document and report illegal logging in 15 regions with video cameras Program sponsored by 2 US/UK NGOs
Without logging, traditional livelihoods become possible again- river fishing, mixed crop farming, cultivation of honey, bamboo, and herbs for medicines
Fiji
Locally managed marine areas- villages choose to put quotas on shellfish and other marine resources (similar to traditional management practices)
Discussion Questions
• What international policies make the biggest difference for environmental stability and poverty?
• What are other examples of a clear relationship between poverty and the environment?
• How is responsibility for aid and assistance established for natural vs anthropogenic environmental problems (Tsunami vs Oil Spill)?
• How do you maintain community-run environmental strategies (against outside influence)?