Social protection is a human right, a commitment in the SDGs and it is an effective policy instrument to address the multiple crises we currently face like a changing climate, conflict and their links with poverty, hunger, and inequality. While progress has been made in expanding access to social protection, there...

If financial assistance to address climate change is used more for the social protection of rural communities, it will facilitate more equitable adaptation – and ultimately strengthen climate protection. Rising temperatures and increasingly frequent and intense weather events due to climate change are imperiling progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals...

Improving coherence between social protection and fisheries policies is a starting point to ensure that fishers’ needs are met, and vulnerabilities are accounted for. FAO recently published a framework guided by the SSF Guidelines to identify ways to make social protection and fisheries policies coherent.

The Government of Lebanon has launched a Farmer Registry. This registry is being used for expanding social protection coverage to farmers as well as for providing them access to agricultural services. "The registry will provide us with accurate knowledge of all the details in the agricultural sector, the cultivated areas, and...

Small-scale producers contribute the least to climate change, but they are among those that are most negatively impacted by it. Climate change is already testing the limits of what communities can survive, due to the rising global temperatures and extreme weather events. Too little is being done for small-scale farmers. Enabling them...