The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed an e-learning course on social protection and inclusive climate risk management, with financial support from the European Union through the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) and the support of SPACE – Social Protection Approaches to COVID-19, funded...

COVID-19 crisis: extending social protection to rural populations is key to recovery The expansion of social protection for rural populations is a prerequisite for a sustainable, inclusive and resilient recovery from COVID-19 and must be at the core of the post-pandemic recovery policies, QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture...

In the scope of the 60th Session of the Commission for Social Development, FAO Chief Economist spoke about the role of social protection and agri-food systems in a post-pandemic recovery.  For all those working in the social protection sector, it was a heartening moment to hear FAO's Chief Economist, Maximo Torero stress the importance...

In the light of the 60th Session of the Commission for Social Development (#CSocD60) - the key United Nations body in charge of the follow up and implementation of the 1995 Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Programme of Action - discover the FAO story and DG's statement. "Social protection schemes...

In this episode, socialprotection.org bring three guests to spotlight non-COVID related news, papers and events from the year just gone. They'll talk about how to design safety nets to reduce gender-based violence, the role of social protection in food systems and on climate change mitigation, as well as a call...