Análisis y diseño de estrategias sensibles a la juventud para la cadena de valor del cacao en Ecuador
2026
This publication presents the results of a youth-sensitive analysis of the cocoa value chain in Ecuador, conducted under the ICA-4 project. It identifies key constraints, youth employment opportunities, and priority intervention areas, and offers recommendations.
Youth-sensitive analysis and strategy design for the soybean value chain in Zambia
2026
This publication presents the results of a youth-sensitive analysis of the soybean value chain in Zambia conducted under the ICA-4 project. It identifies key constraints, youth employment opportunities, and priority intervention areas, and offers recommendations.
Child labour risk assessment tool for investment programmes in agriculture
2026
Understanding how public and private investments may affect child labour is a crucial step towards developing appropriate safeguards and mitigation measures. By offering indicators and guidance tailored specifically to agriculture and its subsectors, this publication serves as a project design tool to strengthen child labour risk assessments, taking into account the specificities of these sectors and rural contexts.
Working together to end child labour in agriculture – A handbook on cross-sectoral collaboration for agrifood and labour actors
2026
This handbook offers practical guidance to strengthen collaboration between labour and agrifood actors to prevent and eliminate child labour in agriculture. It addresses a key implementation gap by positioning child labour in agriculture as both a labour and rural development issue and promoting coordinated, cross-sectoral action on its structural causes.
Child labour in agriculture – Statistical briefing note
2026
This statistical briefing note examines the scale, characteristics and drivers of child labour in agriculture, drawing on the 2024 ILO–UNICEF Global Estimates. It shows that agriculture remains the sector employing the majority of children in child labour worldwide, with particularly high prevalence among younger children and in rural, low-income and crisis-affected settings.
Empowering rural youth for a sustainable future – Green jobs success stories from Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste and Zimbabwe
2026
This visual publication documents the transformative impact of the Green Jobs for Rural Youth Employment (GJ4RYE) project. Implemented by FAO and KOICA from 2019 to 2024 in Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, and Zimbabwe, this initiative empowered rural youth through grants and cash programmes. The document brings to life inspiring stories of some of the young people engaged in the project.
Policy guidance on the elimination of child labour in fisheries and aquaculture
2025
This policy guidance outlines the drivers of child labour, the international and national frame works that address it, and the strategies and practices that can be adapted to different contexts.
The Status of Youth in Agrifood Systems – Overview
2025
This brief presents the key messages and findings from the FAO report The Status of Youth in Agrifood Systems – the most comprehensive evidence-based analysis of youth engagement in agrifood systems to date. It highlights both the opportunities available to young people and the structural barriers they face, offering actionable recommendations for policymakers and development actors.
The Status of Youth in Agrifood Systems
2025
This report is a call to action. It presents FAO's most comprehensive, evidence-based analysis of youth in agrifood systems to date, highlighting both the opportunities and structural barriers that shape their engagement. It highlights policy recommendations and areas of investments to foster more equitable and sustainable agrifood systems, where rural youth are both beneficiaries and leaders of change.
Zambia's soya bean value chain analysis and strategy design 2024–2033
2025
There is high local and international demand for soya beans, but despite the favourable conditions the soya bean sector in Zambia remains underdeveloped. The country has significant potential for upgrading and scaling up its soya bean production. This study proposes business models along the value chain to help unlock the sector's potential and improve its contribution to the national economy.
Integrating human mobility through a rural livelihood lens into national adaptation and mitigation planning – Guiding framework
2025
When climate change undermines rural livelihoods, people may be compelled to move. This guide aims to support stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to explicitly consider mobility from a rural livelihoods' perspective.
Integrating human mobility through a rural livelihood lens into national adaptation and mitigation planning – Toolkit
2025
When climate change undermines rural livelihoods, people may be compelled to move. This guide aims to support stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to explicitly consider mobility from a rural livelihoods' perspective.
Integrated Country Approach (ICA) for boosting decent jobs for youth in the agrifood system – Fourth phase (2024–2027)
2024
Since 2011, FAO has been implementing the Integrated Country Approach (ICA) programme to assist countries in developing inclusive agrifood policies, strategies and programmes for the promotion of youth engagement and employment in agrifood system. This brief provides an overview of the fourth phase of ICA, which will be implemented in Ecuador, Viet Nam, and Zambia. The objective is to improve market functions to generate more and better jobs for the rural youth.
Creating More and Better Jobs for Rural Youth
2024
The global youth population (15 to 24 years old) has reached the unprecedented figure of 1.2 billion. While this represents a significant opportunity for the rejuvenation of agrifood systems, young people continue to turn away from such systems, due to poor access to natural resources, infrastructure, finance, technology, and knowledge. Addressing their needs is therefore crucial to harnessing their full contribution to the development of agrifood systems.
Gender equality and social inclusion for youth organizations - Methodological guidelines
2024
These guidelines are a practical tool for youth organizations to better understand gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) and their importance, offering a step-by-step methodology to self-assess main gaps and areas for improvement as the basis to embed inclusive approaches in their organizational practice.
Youth agripreneurship and pathways of change - Results and lessons learned from Guatemala and Uganda
2024
This document presents the results and lessons learned in the domain of youth entrepreneurship emerging from the implementation of specific pilot models in Guatemala and Uganda in the frame of the project “Integrated Country Approach (ICA) for boosting decent jobs for youth in the agrifood system”. The brief aims to contribute to an improved understanding of the underlying motives and processes of change in relation to youth entrepreneurship, and possibly inspire other similar youth employment interventions based on the findings of the assessment conducted.