VegetablesWater lilies from the beels keep poor families going in Shariatpur's monsoon
In the rainy season, low-income people in Shariatpur gather wild water lilies from beels and low land at dawn and sell bundles of 10 to 12 stems for Tk 10 to 20.
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Livelihoods
VegetablesFisheries
Small-scale fishers set priorities at Rome summit on a half-billion livelihoods
The third Small-Scale Fisheries Summit at FAO headquarters worked on national action plans for a sector that lands at least 40 percent of the world's fish catch.
Environment
Ethiopia's Omo-Ghibe basin seeks paying livelihoods that keep forests standing
Consultations in Addis Ababa and Jimma identified forest coffee, beekeeping, spices, bamboo and timber plantations as the most promising ways to reward communities in southwest Ethiopia for protecting intact forest.