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Gender, Equity and Rural Employment
Rural employment resources and related links
FAO-ILO Website “Food, Agriculture and Decent Work”
Decent Work
FAO-ILO Website: Decent Employment
Guidance on how to address rural employment and decent work concerns in FAO country activities (FAO, ILO, 2010)
Quick reference for addressing rural employment and decent work (FAO, ILO, 2010
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Hurst P., Agricultural Workers and Their Contribution to Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development, (FAO, ILO, IUF-IUTA-IUL, 2007
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Elements of an FAO rural employment strategy – Productive, fair and just employment for rural development and food security, 2009
Decent Rural Employment: Key for poverty reduction and food security (leaflet)
SARD Initiative: fostering fair conditions for employment
Gender-equitable rural employment
FAO-ILO Website: Gender-equitable rural employment
FAO-ILO-IFAD Workshop in gender and rural employment (31 March-2 April 2009)
Women and Rural Employment, Policy Brief 5/2009 (FAO, 2009)
FAO-IFAD-ILO Policy Brief #1, 2010: Gender-equitable rural work to reduce poverty and boost economic growth
FAO-IFAD-ILO Policy Brief #2, 2010: Investing in skills for socio-economic empowerment of rural women
FAO-IFAD-ILO Policy Brief #3, 2010: Rural women’s entrepreneurship is “good business”!
FAO-IFAD-ILO Policy Brief #4, 2010: Agricultural value chain development: Threat or opportunity for women’s employment?
FAO-IFAD-ILO Policy Brief #5, 2010: Women in infrastructure works: Boosting gender equality and rural development!
FAO-IFAD-ILO Policy Brief #6, 2010: Making migration work for women and men in rural labour markets
The FAO-IFAD-ILO policy briefs above are also available on the FAO-ILO website:
Policy Briefs "Gender and Rural Employment Policy: Differentiated pathways out of poverty"
Youth Employment
FAO-ILO Website: Youth Employment
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unior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS)
Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) Inventory
Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit for Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) (FAO, 2010)
SARD and children and youth, Policy brief 1/2007
Promoting Employment and Entrepreurship for Vulnerable Youths in West Bank and Gaza Strip (FAO, 2010)
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Rural Youth Employment in Developing Countries: A Global View (FAO, March 2010)
Child Labour Prevention
FAO-ILO Website: Child Labour in Agriculture
FAO’s Work on Eliminating Child Labour in Agriculture 2007 – 2009
FAO workshop on child labour in fisheries and aquaculture in cooperation with the ILO
SARD and child labour, Policy brief 2/2006
FAO-IFAD-ILO Policy Brief #7, 2010: Breaking the rural poverty cycle: Getting girls and boys out of work and into school
Migration and Rural-Urban Linkages
FAO-ILO Website: Rural migration
SARD and migration, Policy brief n. 1, 2007
International migration, remittances and rural development, 2008 (FAO, IFAD, 2008)
FAO-IFAD-ILO Policy Brief #6, 2010: Making migration work for women and men in rural labour markets