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Decent Rural Employment

FAO promotes decent rural employment opportunities that ensure a living wage, security in the workplace, access to social protection, gender equality and social dialogue, while achieving environmental sustainability.
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Child labour
DIGICHILD: Exploring georeferenced data to combat child labour in agrifood systems
02/12/2024

The clock is ticking as the 2025 deadline to end child labour under SDG 8.7 rapidly approaches, and the challenge remains critical. 

Youth employment
Strengthening youth engagement in policy for agrifood systems transformation
20/11/2024

Youth play a vital role in transforming agriculture and food systems, yet they are often excluded from policymaking processes. This lack of representation...

Stories
Youth employment
Proving that disability is not inability
29/01/2024

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Green jobs
From honeycombs to green jobs: Empowering Zimbabwe's rural youth through beekeeping
13/06/2023

The FAO Green Jobs for Rural Youth Employment (GJ4RYE) project is transforming lives in Zimbabwe by creating green jobs, particularly in beekeeping....

Creating jobs in agriculture for youth with disabilities in Kenya
03/12/2023

Many talented youth with disabilities face challenges in accessing decent jobs. Promoting quality work opportunities is essential to break the vicious...

The coffee industry : a catalyst for change in child labour
01/05/2022

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, and partners in the Ixil region are tackling child labour and poverty by promoting education and safe youth employment in the coffee industry.

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Featured publications
FAO framework on ending child labour in agriculture
12/06/2020

The purpose of the FAO’s framework is to guide the Organization and its personnel in the integration of measures addressing child labour within FAO’s typical work, programmes and initiatives at global, regional and country levels. It aims to enhance compliance with organization’s operational standards, and strengthen coherence and synergies across the Organization and with partners. The FAO framework is primarily targeted at FAO as an organization, including all personnel in all geographic locations. But the framework is also relevant for FAO’s governing bodies and Member States, and provides guidance and a basis for collaboration with development partners. The framework is also to be used as a key guidance to assess and monitor compliance with FAO’s environmental and social standards addressing prevention and reduction of child labour in FAO’s programming.

FAO Migration Framework
15/04/2019

The FAO Migration Framework guides the Organization in carrying out its work on migration at global, regional and country levels. It aims to ensure greater coordination between technical units and decentralized offices, and strengthen coherence and synergies across the Organization. It presents FAO definition, vision and mission on migration and spells out the rational for FAO engagement in this area. It presents what FAO does on migration, identifying the four main thematic areas of work along the migration cycle. Finally, it describes how FAO works on migration along its core functions.

Incorporating decent rural employment in the strategic planning for agricultural development
05/04/2016

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