Reports and briefs
Youth and Agriculture: Key Challenges and Concrete Solutions
This publication provides real life examples on how to re-engage youth in agriculture. It shows how tailor-made educational programmes can provide rural youth with the skills and insights needed to engage in farming and adopt environmentally friendly production methods. Many of the initiatives and...
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Consultation
Promoting sustainable food systems for healthy diets in Europe and Central Asia: the key role of school food and nutrition programmes
We invite you to express your views and recommendations on national school food and nutrition programmes (SFNP), how to make them more inclusive, better integrated into food systems and supporting healthy diets and lifestyles from an early age. The outputs of this online consultation will help to better advocate sustainable healthy food systems by promoting multicomponent approaches to school food and nutrition programmes based on relevant national policy and legislation frameworks.
Reports and briefs
Schools as a System to Improve Nutrition - A new statement for school-based food and nutrition interventions
This discussion paper shows that schools offer a unique opportunity to improve nutrition using a systemic, multi-sectoral approach. Social, health, economic and ethic arguments coalesce in and around schools. Looking at schools as a (food system) to improve nutrition offers insights into what...
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Consultation
Sustaining the Impact of Capacity Development Initiatives for African Youth in Agriculture
Trainings, tools and databases
Public purchases of food from family farming, and food and nutrition security in Latin America and the Caribbean
This book, prepared by the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Program, presents the most important lessons learned from the experiences currently underway in the region, which serve as guidelines for countries that wish to create or improve public procurement programmes. The book also analyzes the...
Reports and briefs
In Brief: Policies and programmes to fight overweight and obesity
FSN Forum brief based on the online discussion "Are there any successful policies and programmes to fight overweight and obesity?" held from 14 June to 7 July 2016, facilitated by Francisca Silva Torrealba from the Catholic University of Chile and Rodrigo Vásquez Panizza from FAO Chile.
Consultation
Nutrition and Food Systems - HLPE consultation on the V0 draft of the Report
At its 42nd session in October 2015, the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) requested the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) to prepare a report on Nutrition and Food Systems. This report is expected to be presented at CFS 44 in October 2017.
As part of the process of elaboration of its reports, the HLPE is organizing a consultation to seek inputs, suggestions, and comments on the present V0 draft.
Trainings, tools and databases
Addressing rural youth distress migration
Migrants are a potential resource for agriculture and rural development as well as poverty reduction in their areas of origin. However, distress migration of rural youth can result in the loss of an important share of the most vital and dynamic part of the workforce, with obvious consequences for...
Summaries of consultations
Summary of "Youth – feeding the future. Addressing the challenges faced by rural youth aged 15 to 17 in preparing for and accessing decent work"
This document summarizes the 118 contributions received to the online consultation held from 25 April to 15 May 2016 and facilitated by Jacqueline Demeranville of FAO’s Decent Rural Employment Team.
Proceedings of activities
Output of "Youth – feeding the future. Addressing the challenges faced by rural youth aged 15 to 17 in preparing for and accessing decent work"
This document includes the 15 contributions received to the online consultation held from 25 April to 15 May 2016 and facilitated by Jacqueline Demeranville, Decent Rural Employment Team at FAO. The views expressed in this information product are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect...
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