Achieving Zero Hunger: The Critical Role of Investments in Social Protection and Agriculture
Second edition This paper provides estimates of investment costs, both public and private, required to eliminate chronic dietary energy deficits, or to achieve zero hunger by 2030. This target is consistent with achieving both Sustainable Development Goal 2, to eliminate hunger by 2030, and...
La situation mondiale de l’alimentation et de l’agriculture 2015 (SOFA)
Protection sociale et agriculture: Briser le cercle vicieux de la pauvreté rurale De nombreux pays ont atteint les objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement (OMD) relatifs à la réduction de la pauvreté. D’autres, en revanche, en sont encore loin et le défi de l’après-2015 consistera à éliminer...
Webinar: The Role of Rural organisations in Social Protection
Extending social protection and risk management systems effectively to rural populations is often a challenge for government institutions in many developing countries. The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition has recognized in its 2012 report the importance of involving non-state actors, including rural organizations, in the formulation and execution of social protection systems.
Rural organisations contribute to extending social protection to the rural poor in several ways by:
- performing agreed tasks through participatory mechanisms within national social protection systems;
- developing collective practices of risk management and mutual assistance for their members.
FAO has launched a global study on good practices in harnessing the role of rural organizations in social protection, to document cases and compile an “Inventory of practices” on the current and potential role of rural organisations in social protection.
To share findings on this issue, the FSN Forum has organized a webinar held on 25 November 2015.
Examples from two cases identified through the study were presented to the participants by Igor Vinci, Rural Institutions and Social Protection Consultant. The aim was to draw viable recommendations on the role of rural organizations in social protection, by collecting valuable conclusions of the case analysis.
The webinar attracted over 50 experts and development practitioners in the fields of social protection, rural development and rural services, who came together with members of rural and civil society sharing findings and discussing the preliminary results of the study.
The feedback provided by the participants during the webinar will feed into the analytical section of the inventory and thusto contribute to the official report.
The recording of the session is available following the link: http://fao.adobeconnect.com/p5l1yh7bh6i
Further background information on this activity is available here: www.fao.org/fsnforum/news/webinar-role-rural-organisations-social-protection
The underlying concept is further described in this article on Local Solutions to Social Protection: the role of rural organizations.
For any additional information on this activity contact:
May Hani, Policy Officer (Institutions and rural services), FAO: [email protected]
Igor Vinci, Rural Institutions and Social Protection Consultant: [email protected]
FSN Forum Team
The State of Food and Agriculture 2015 - Social protection and agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on reducing poverty have been met by many countries, yet many others lag behind and the post-2015 challenge will be the full eradication of poverty and hunger. Many developing countries increasingly recognize that social protection measures are needed to relieve the immediate deprivation of people living in poverty and to prevent others from falling into poverty when a crisis strikes.
This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture 2015 makes the case that social protection measures will help break the cycle of rural poverty and vulnerability, when combined with broader agricultural and rural development measures.
Les programmes de protection sociale soucieux de la nutrition dans le monde – Qu'est-ce qui existe et quels en sont les effets ?
L'objectif de cette discussion conjoint est de dresser un bilan de ce que les pays font dans le monde dans le domaine de la protection sociale soucieuse de la nutrition – leurs réussites et leurs difficultés – et de fournir un mécanisme aux parties prenantes du monde entier pour s'impliquer dans le dialogue et le partage des expériences et des leçons apprises.
Protection sociale pour renforcer la résilience des populations tributaires de la forêt
Les populations tributaires de la forêt vivent souvent dans des zones pauvres et éloignées où les opportunités de moyens d'existence sont rares. Les principaux défis auxquels ces populations sont confrontées sont la pauvreté, la vulnérabilité, la marginalisation et l'exclusion sociale. Dans ce contexte, les forêts ont souvent fait office de filet de sécurité pour affronter les crises, ce qui peut conduire à une gestion insoutenable des ressources forestières.
Quel est le rôle de la protection sociale dans la promotion et protection des moyens d'existence des populations tributaires de la forêt ?
School feeding and possibilities for direct purchases from family farming
This publication “School feeding and possibilities for direct purchases from family farming in Latin American countries” contributes to the articulation of the sectors involved with school feeding, in the search for alternatives for the institutionalization and strengthening of school feeding...
L'état de l’insécurité alimentaire dans le monde 2014 (SOFI)
Créer un environnement plus propice à la sécurité alimentaire et à la nutrition L’édition 2014 de L’État de l'insécurité alimentaire dans le monde présente les dernières estimations des niveaux de la sous-alimentation dans le monde et décrit les progrès accomplis en vue de la réalisation des cibles...
Cash Transfers and Resilience: Strengthening Linkages Between Emergency Cash Transfers and National Social Transfer Programmes in the Sahel - Discussion Paper
This discussion paper has been inspired by the exchanges that took place during the course of the learning event. It seeks to extend the discussion to include other actors working within the region, as well as in other regions confronted with the same questions. It proposes an initial approach to...
Regional Learning Event: “Links between emergency cash transfer programming and social safety nets in the Sahel” - Final report
Cash transfers are nowadays widely used in response to the food and nutrition crises that affect the Sahel. Since the crisis of 2012, many stakeholders (including governments, United Nations agencies, international or local non-governmental organisations) have made use of them – at scale, in some...