Starting Points for Creating Sustainable Livelihoods Sustainable livelihoods encompass many locally defined needs and priorities, whether economic, social, spiritual, political, etc. Sustainable livelihoods approaches should base strategies to meet these needs on local livelihood skills and systems. Given the obstacles facing the world's poor, the first steps towards sustainable livelihoods can be painful and tentative. Working from an area of strength can empower people to initiate more widespread change and action. Appropriate technologies can increase employment, generate income, and enable people to their meet basic needs.
Appropriate technologies can also conserve or rehabilitate the environment.
They should promote equity, whether among genders, generations, castes, or other social divides. In Koussanar, the cultivators prepared a cartoon explaining the process and its influence on the life in their village. Micro-Enterprise Development Developing economically viable small enterprises can generate income among the poor, enabling them to meet their basic needs. Decreasing the economic risk to participants may require innovative financing schemes. DA has developed micro-enterprises to create sustainable livelihoods in Tumkur District.