If financial assistance to address climate change is used more for the social protection of rural communities, it will facilitate more equitable adaptation – and ultimately strengthen climate protection. Rising temperatures and increasingly frequent and intense weather events due to climate change are imperiling progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals...

Improving coherence between social protection and fisheries policies is a starting point to ensure that fishers’ needs are met, and vulnerabilities are accounted for. FAO recently published a framework guided by the SSF Guidelines to identify ways to make social protection and fisheries policies coherent.

The Government of Lebanon has launched a Farmer Registry. This registry is being used for expanding social protection coverage to farmers as well as for providing them access to agricultural services. "The registry will provide us with accurate knowledge of all the details in the agricultural sector, the cultivated areas, and...

Small-scale producers contribute the least to climate change, but they are among those that are most negatively impacted by it. Climate change is already testing the limits of what communities can survive, due to the rising global temperatures and extreme weather events. Too little is being done for small-scale farmers. Enabling them...

In an increasingly complex scenario, world hunger is on the rise. This highly complex development and humanitarian situationis exacerbated by shocks that impact vulnerable rural communities where small-scale food producers have not enough means to cope with hazards andare thus deprived of their livelihoods.  In response to the global food crisis,...