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Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods
Addressing issues that impact on people's ability to maintain and sustain their livelihoods.
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Addressing issues that impact on people's ability to maintain and sustain their livelihoods.
The Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods (CSL), University College Cork, aims to determine and address issues that impact on people's ability to maintain and sustain their livelihoods.
The Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods (CLS) is committed to research, capacity building, harmonising trade and agricultural policy and policy development/advocacy. The Centre's role encompasses research, development, training and advocacy in areas related to attaining sustainable livelihoods. It brings together practitioners and academics drawn from the fields of food science, human nutrition, geography, politics, agriculture, economics, sociology, food business, marketing and others. The Centre encourages networking between public and private actions in improving sustainability, efficient use of resources and entrepreneurial opportunities.
As part of its mission, the Centre provides the following services offered to both academic and civil society:
A key tenet of the operation of the Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods is that we provide linkages between research and action. Research that we conduct originates from, is driven by, and indeed often performed by target populations. The research is then not only appropriate to this population, it is the most appropriate research to this population, and is driven by the needs of the population. In using the population to complete research, capacity is developed for the locale that can then be utilised to further benefit the community.
The Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods research/projects are based on topical issues such as: