LIFT pROMOTES sTRENGTH aND dIGNITY THROUGH iMPROVING fOOD sECURITY aND lIVELIHOODS
In line with its purpose, LIFT’s work focuses on food security and livelihoods, specifically targeting vulnerable populations in Myanmar.
FOOD SECURITY
Food security guarantees consistent access to nutritious food, which is critical for reducing poverty, improving public health, and ensuring global stability. It supports economic growth, drives agricultural productivity, and enhances overall resilience against crises. It prevents malnutrition and, particularly in children, promotes proper development.
Food security is a state where everyone consistently has the physical, social, and economic means to access enough safe and nourishing food that aligns with dietary requirements and preferences, enabling healthy and active lives.
There are four key pillars of food security.
- Food availability (physical existence of food)
- Food access (ability to obtain food)
- Food utilisation (the body’s ability to use food consumed)
- Food stability (consistent access to food even during shocks)
LIVELIHOODS
Livelihoods provide the means for individuals to satisfy daily needs, such as food, shelter, and security, while fostering independence and dignity. It is critical for establishing household resilience against economic shocks, reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development, and empowering vulnerable populations, including displaced persons. Attaining sustainable livelihoods is a key pathway to lifting people out of poverty.
A sustainable livelihood incorporates the abilities, assets, and activities needed for a living, and for withstanding and recovering from stress and shocks. It includes maintaining or improving resources and capabilities to offer opportunities for the next generation, and has benefits locally and globally, both now and in the future.
Sustainable livelihoods are built on five key assets – assets that people use to earn a living.
- Human capital (people’s qualities – attitudes, skills, knowledge)
- Natural capital (resources used by people – air, land, soil, animals)
- Financial capital (finances available to people – wages, savings, credits
- Social capital (relationships with others)
- Physical capital (resources created by people – infrastructure, machinery
EXPLORE
Climate-smart agriculture, access to nutritious food and sustainable livelihoods
Evidence, inclusivity, context-sensitivity and local-first
Where We Work
