The Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods, University College Cork, aims to determine and address issues that impact on people's ability to maintain and sustain their livelihoods.

The Centre's role encompasses research, development, training and advocacy in areas related to attaining sustainable livelihoods, both in the South and North. It brings together relief and development practitioners and academics drawn from the fields of food science, human nutrition, geography, politics, agriculture, economics, sociology, anthropology, and others. The Centre encourages networking between public and private action, South and North, between the economically rich countries and the disadvantaged in the Majority World.