Healing hands, protecting livelihoods

Finding healing hands: the global health workforce shortage

Sally Murray is an associate editor of Open Medicine.

Controlling Avian Flu and Protecting People’s Livelihoods in Africa and Indonesia

 Even though the poultry sector is only a small part of the Kenyan economy, almost all farmers are connected to poultry production and because of that, their livelihoods are likely to be affected by an avian flu outbreak.  Increasing the severity, duration and geographic spread of an avian flu outbreak may lead to significantly larger declines in poultry production.  The economywide costs of...

Controlling Avian Flu and Protecting People’s Livelihoods in the Mekong Region

Since late 2003, more than 6,500 HPAI/H5N1 outbreaks have been reported in 61 countries and human cases have been identified in 15 countries. While the mechanisms enabling persistence in poultry populations remain unclear, the movement of poultry through live-bird markets (LBM), which are common in Asian countries because of a cultural preference to consume freshly slaughtered meat, has been sh...

Organising to Protect: Protecting Landscapes and Livelihoods in the Nicaraguan Hillsides

Social science literature on protected areas (PAs) has hitherto focused mostly upon how PAs have been designated at the expense of the interests of people living in and around the PA and how this has often resulted in conflict. However, there is a growing recognition that this dichotomised perception does not always adequately capture what is taking place in relation to PA establishment and man...

CITES & Livelihoods