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Young people play a key role in accelerating the sustainable transformation of agrifood systems. Despite that, low pay, little access to land finance and knowledge often push youth to turn away from agriculture. To tackle these challenges, since 2011, FAO has been implementing the Integrated Country Approach (ICA) for boosting...

This booklet provides in-depth analysis on the trends of the youth-specific key performance indicator in FAO over the biennium 2022–2023. Further analyses included are on youth inclusion in projects affiliated to FAO’s Programme Priority Areas, Country Programming Frameworks, and at global level, FAO’s performance in the implementation of Youth2030 –...

The Green Jobs for Rural Youth Employment (GJ4RYE) project promotes green jobs through skills training in land reclamation, organic horticulture, and beekeeping. Youth participants, coming from diverse backgrounds including former miners and recent graduates, are employed under a Wage Employment Initiative to rehabilitate mined-out lands for agricultural use.