Eco-livelihoods is an

employee owned company

that was established to

work with stakeholders to

develop solutions that

build sustainable

livelihoods and conserve

natural resources in

sensitive areas that are

experience resource based

conflict.

Why Eco-livelihoods?

Eco-livelihoods links companies concerned with delivering successful environmental impacts, effective Community Engagement and Development (CED) programmes and good community relations to the people and communities they engage with.

Livelihoods Creation/Recreation

Agricultural Intensification and Food Security

Community Based Natural Resource Management

Community Linked Rehabilitation and Closure

Natural Resource Linked Conflict Resolution

Our focus is on clients

who do business in

complex, diverse and

sensitive environments.

Our expertise includes

comprehensive

environmental impact

studies, option scoping,

solution implementation

and on-going support of

community projects.

Eco-livelihoods specialises

in working in fractured

communities in post conflict

societies and rebuilding

human and other capital.

We draw on our proven

ability to align community

development with overall

policies and objectives of

government's and other

stakeholders in these

challenging circumstances.

Rebuilding Social Capital

Solutions must be holistic and address in almost equal measure poverty, development,

bio-diversity and climate change.

Solutions lie with the people of

Africa – in particular

millions of small farmers.

Development solutions are to be found in creating

conditions in which community

initiative can flourish.

Profiled Project

• Community Leaders – Kamoa

• Traditional Leaders

• Ivanplats

• Leeds University

• Eco-livelihoods

• African Minerals (Barbados)

Our funding comes from the

following sources:

Corporate Social

Investment

Grants

Payments for Eco- systems

Services

Contract Fees

We have developed a “menu” of interventions and livelihood transforming strategies that we believe enable communities to change the way they use natural resources and build sustainable livelihoods with adequate food and fuel.

• CHALLENGES

• Food Insecurity

• Resource Nationalism

• Poverty

• Unsustainable Resource Use

• Unemployment

Community

Mining Developer

•PROGRAMMES

•Livelihoods Creation

•Agricultural Intensification

•CBNRM

•Gender and Youth

•Monitoring

Sustainable Livelihoods Project • Demonstration and Trials

• Establish User Groups

• Supply Equipment, Seed

• Extension Support

• Technical Support

• Market linkages

• Business Support

Client – Community Sustainability Partnership

These are some of the menu options and

development programmes that we offer

farmers and forest communities..........

Village Vegetable Gardens

Analyse farming systems for

rural communities living in or

at the edge of forest areas.

Identify constraints and

opportunities and the

development of

recommendations to increase

productivity of these farming

systems and minimize their

negative impact on forest

areas.

Design solutions for poverty alleviation and

community development solutions that bring holistic

development to communities.

Eco-livelihoods has experience in the

management of indigenous forest

ecosystems including inventories,

land use planning and zoning,

enrichment planting, reforestation

and fire management.

We draw on the skills of experienced

foresters, forest managers,

agronomists and other scientific

partners to develop and manage

biodiversity conservation plans for

standing indigenous forest habitats.

Rehabilitation and restoration of indigenous forest

landscapes.

seed collection of indigenous species,

germination and care of seedlings,

transport and planting of trees back into degraded

landscapes.

Forest degraded by commercial logging, mining

activity, subsistence agriculture, unsustainable charcoal

production and other human activity.

Rehabilitation of riparian environments and eroded

landscapes using a combination of replanting of trees

and other grasses and shrubs.

Clean Drinking Water

For further information about our

ongoing work and to discuss future

engagements please contact Eco-

livelihoods. philip.powell@eco-livelihoods.com