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Within the framework of the ‘’Building Resilience in the Sahel Region through Job Creation for Youth’’ project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), the FAO organized, in partnership with the G5 Sahel Secretariat and facilitated by PROCASUR, the Regional Forum ‘’Youth Resilience through inclusion in...

Revisit FAO’s engagements during the first IMRF, at the crossroads of human mobility, rural development, and the need to transform our agrifood systems. The first quadrennial International Migration Review Forum 2022 (IMRF) took place in New York from 17-20 May. Convened by the UN General Assembly, the IMRF serves as the primary intergovernmental...

Child labour has risen for the first time in twenty years, according to the 2020 Global Estimates released by the ILO and UNICEF. Worldwide, 160 million children are trapped in child labour – an increase of 8.4 million in four years, which marks a dramatic reversal of years of progress. The COVID-19...

As part of its efforts to empower youth and promote their engagement in decision-making processes, FAO has organized a series of regional webinars aimed at presenting its internal institutional mechanisms and sharing country-level example of how young people can meaningfully contribute to the formulation of agrifood policies,. The first event...

Migration, if planned and well managed, can play a key role in improving the adaptive capacity of rural households and can support the development of climate-smart agricultural practices. Integrating migration considerations into climate and rural development policy and action is an important first step towards addressing the adverse drivers of...

17 March 2022 marked the end of the FAO-PROCASUR  G5 Regional Learning Route ‘’Strengthening the resilience of the G5 Sahel region through the creation of jobs for rural youth’’. This activity fall under the umbrella of the project Building Resilience in the Sahel Region through Job Creation for Youth, funded by the...

Abdoulaye Wade’s ambition is to run his own cattle fattening and market gardening business. When he returned to Senegal from Libya in 2020, FAO had just started piloting a new project in his area. The initiative focuses on facilitating the socio-economic integration of returning and prospect migrants. It helps them...

Despite agriculture employs more than 70 percent of Kenyan rural people, there is a general trend of youth moving away from agriculture and rural areas (FAO, 2019). Although not backed by age-disaggregated data, the low levels of youth participation in agricultural activities in Kenya have been a matter of great...

The 33rd  International Congress on Occupational Health, organized by the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), was held in a digital format from 6 to 10 February, under the theme “Sharing solutions in occupational health through and beyond the pandemic.” Overall, the Congress saw the participation of more than 1...

"The Sahel is a place of opportunities, full of human, natural and cultural resources that are significant and abundant. The challenge is to harness these resources through public policies that can transform this potential into job creation, especially for youth living in rural areas." On 17 February, during the launch event...