Webinars and workshops
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Designing public programmes to promote investment of family remittances in the development of small and medium agribusiness: the experience of the PARE 1+1 Programme in Moldova
Based on the good practices and lessons learned from PARE 1+1, this webinar focuses on developing public programmes – from design to monitoring and evaluation – to channel remittances into sustainable investment of small and medium-sized agribusinesses.
Summaries of consultations
How can agricultural policies and strategies help to end child labour in agriculture?
This document summarizes the online discussion How can agricultural policies and strategies help to end child labour in agriculture? held on the FAO Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) from 27 April to 25 May 2020. The discussion was part of FAO’s activities leading up to the...
Consultation
How can agricultural policies and strategies help to end child labour in agriculture?
Today, approximately 71% of child labour, or 108 million children worldwide, is found in the agriculture sector. Child labour perpetuates a cycle of poverty for the children involved, their families and communities, where they are likely to be the rural poor of tomorrow. This online discussion will be instrumental to identify and document good and promising practices for which evidence-based research and replication could be explored.
Consultation
Mainstreaming gender for sustainable soil management
Closing the gender gap in access to productive resources and services is crucial for the achievement of a Zero Hunger world. This online discussion aims at collecting the views from a wide range of stakeholders about the relations between gender equality, sustainable soil management and food security.
Summaries of consultations
Addressing the challenges and realizing the potential benefits of migration to improve nutrition and food security in the Europe and Central Asia region
This document summarizes the online consultation Addressing the challenges and realizing the potential benefits of migration to better nutrition in the Europe and Central Asia region, which was held on the FAO Forum on Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia (FSN Forum in ECA) from 25...
Consultation
Addressing the challenges and realizing the potential benefits of migration to improve nutrition and food security in the Europe and Central Asia region
External and internal migration flows can have a significant impact on poverty, food security, nutrition and the development of rural areas due to their demographic, economic and societal implications.
We invite you to share your views and experiences on how migration and the remittance flow it generates can influence food security, nutrition and rural development.
Reports and briefs
The future of food and agriculture: Alternative pathways to 2050
This report explores three different scenarios for the future of food and agriculture, based on alternative trends for key drivers, including income growth and distribution, population growth, technical progress and climate change. Building on the report The future of food and agriculture – Trends...
Reports and briefs
Food security and armed conflict: a cross-country analysis
The report analyses the relation between conflict and food security, using country-level data that cover 106 countries in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America between 1961 and 2011. The results highlight the negative correlation between conflict and food security, illustrating how certain...
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Summaries of consultations
Rural migration, agriculture and rural development
This FSN Forum brief is based on the September-October 2017 online discussion Rural migration, agriculture and rural development, facilitated by Andrea Cattaneo of FAO. Participants in 28 countries commented on the draft annotated outline of the 2018 edition of The State of Food and Agriculture...
Technical workshop: The drivers and impacts of migration and labour mobility in origins and destinations
A technical workshop titled: The drivers and impacts of migration and labour mobility in origins and destinations: Building the evidence base for policies that promote safe, orderly and regular people’s and labour mobility for poverty reduction and sustainable development will take place at FAO headquarters, Rome.
The workshop will bring together researchers and policy makers from around the world in an effort to provide evidence, promote understanding, enhance dialogue on migration, labor and people’s mobility for poverty reduction and sustainable development.
The objectives are:
1. Understand the diverse patterns, drivers and impacts of migration and labor mobility to address challenges for achieving sustainable livelihoods transformation, food security and nutrition and poverty reduction.
2. Promote multisector policy approaches to the development of rural areas and rural-urban linkages to facilitate rural transformation and agricultural and food systems’ transitions for economies and societies at large.
The event is available on webcast:
- Webcasting Morning Session: http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/4547/icode/
- Webcasting Afternoon Session: http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/4549/icode/