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Nearly 60 percent of child labour - 98 million boys and girls - occurs within the agricultural sector, including farming, livestock, forestry, fishing and aquaculture. As part of its mandate, FAO strives to include child labour considerations into country policies and strategies for rural development. In this context, the progress...

5 October 2015, Tunis - FAO and the Government of Tunisia signed a partnership agreement which aims to reduce youth mobility caused by poverty, by implementing innovative policies that will create jobs and business opportunities for young people in rural areas. The agreement was signed by Mr. Saad Seddik, Minister...

On 7 September 2015, FAO and IFAD launched in Bridgetown, Barbados, the programme Strengthening decent rural employment opportunities for young women and men in the Caribbean (FAO/FIDA-Youth Caribe). The aim of the joint programme is to tackle the growing level of youth unemployment in the Caribbean.FAO/FIDA-Youth Caribe is built on...

The Government of Mali is encouraging job creation for rural youth. In this context, FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture have launched a new project that aims to reduce rural poverty through fostering of youth entrepreneurship. The project, named “Youth at Work, Reducing rural poverty”, is funded by the Africa Solidarity Trust...

A national workshop held by the Ministry of Agriculture and FAO on Child labour in Agriculture took place in Niamey on July 23-24 (2014). There were 70 participants from all over the country representing a wide range of key stakeholders: technicians and officers from the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry...

A new report on “Youth and Agriculture: Key Challenges and Concrete Solutions” has recently been published by The Youth and United Nations Global Alliance (YUNGA), FAO, the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The report provides real life examples of how to engage...

FAO has continued to scale-up its efforts to address child labour in agriculture, including fisheries, forestry and livestock, during the period 2012-2014. Contributions from FAO at major conferences and strengthened inter-agency cooperation at global, regional and national level are raising the profile of an integrated approach to child labour in...

On 28-29 November 2013, FAO hosted a sensitization workshop on decent rural employment issues in the cassava value chain in Ghana’s West Gonja District.Representatives of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) and Northern Regional Coordinating Council, as well as local cassava producers, processors and traders were brought together in...

A new UN Joint Programme that aims to boost national food security in Zambia by encouraging young women and men to develop sustainable rural enterprises has received contributions of USD 7 million from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). The initiative will also contribute to Zambia’s implementation of theComprehensive...

The 3rd Global Conference on Child Labour – hosted by the Brazilian Government from October 8-10 2013 – was attended by delegates from 152 countries who gathered to identify successful ways to eradicate child labour globally and to take stock of progress made towards the implementation of the Roadmap for achieving the elimination...