Last week the social protection webpage in the FAO in emergencies website was launched! The idea behind the creation of this webpage is that to increase the visibility of social protection as a tool to manage risks and mitigate the impact of shocks.   The page is available in French and Spanish  

The COVID-19 pandemic is, directly and indirectly, impacting health and well-being around the globe. Illness and containment measures are compounding the social and economic disadvantages of the most vulnerable in society. These social and economic impacts stand to cause devastating setbacks to efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable...

Measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 include strong restrictions of movement which dramatically change daily lives and impact agricultural livelihoods. These measures are particularly difficult for the rural poorest and most vulnerable, who tend to hold jobs and occupations which cannot be performed remotely. Many of the world’s poor...

Social protection must be seen as an investment in communities’ resilience. That was one of the key messages coming out of Cultivate Africa, a two-day online event (17-18 November) on COVID-19 response and recovery in Africa organized by the African Union Commission and attended by more than 1400 participants. Recordings from event...

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) participó en la Conferencia Virtual “Transformando la crisis del COVID-19 en oportunidad: ¿Cuál es el futuro de la protección social?", organizada por la plataforma socialprotection.org, entre los días 5 y 8 de octubre del 2020.