ABSTRACT
Poverty is one of the most pressing issues in the world, and progress toward poverty reduction has been deaccelerated due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. In this chapter, the authors define Sustainable Development Goal 1, No Poverty, and discuss how sport industry actors may play a role in poverty reduction. The authors offer an overview of the sustainable livelihoods framework (SLF), a holistic framework for understanding how sustainable livelihoods may address poverty. Following an outline of the SLF’s key components and how the framework relates to SDG 1 and sport, the authors highlight ways forward and potential challenges of employing the SLF for empirical investigations in regard to poverty, sport, and SDG 1. They conclude the chapter by identifying some sport industry actors working to achieve SDG 1.
