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With more than 120 million people worldwide dependent on fisheries and aquaculture for their livelihoods – and another 1.6 billion on forests – this article by FAO colleagues featured in a special issue of IPC Policy in Focus Magazine sheds light on the reasons why adequate social protection is considered today as...
A Zero Hunger Africa demands strengthened social protection systems
21 November 2019
21 November 2019
FAO South-South Cooperation (SSC) convenes 14 countries in Kenya on linkages between Social Protection, Agriculture and Resilience
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21/11/12019 Nairobi – More than 113 million people across Africa experienced acute hunger requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance in 2018, according to the latest Global Report on Food...
New publication! Climate Change and Social Protection
13 November 2019
13 November 2019
FAO recognizes that those living in rural areas whose livelihoods depend heavily on natural resources, are disproportionately affected by climate risks because of their great likelihood of living in high-risk geographical locations as well as their high vulnerability to, and limited capacity to cope with, climate hazards due to low...
A group of FAO experts shared their knowledge and latest findings on social protection with policy-makers and government representatives who took part in this year’s edition of the Academy on Social Security from 16-27 September 2019, at ILO’s International Training Center in Turin, Italy.
FAO researchers and social protection experts Garima...
New! FAO Corporate brochure on social protection
09 October 2019
09 October 2019
The new corporate brochure on FAO's work on Social Protection highlights the important role that social protection plays in addressing many of the barriers poor rural households face in building resilient and sustainable livelihoods.
Despite progress in recent decades, 736 million people worldwide still live in extreme poverty. Most are...