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FAO, Private and public partnership model for Youth Employment in Agriculture. Experiences from Malawi, Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar Archipelago

Year of publication 2014

Pages 33 p.

Author Dalla Valle, F.;FAO, Rome (Italy). Social Protection Div.

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) leads international efforts to defeat hunger and mitigate poverty by helping developing countries and countries in transition to modernize and improve their agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and to ensure food and nutrition security for all. Furthermore, as stressed by FAO, improving policy coherence between employment and agricultural initiatives and investing more in the promotion of decent rural employment make a si gnificant contribution to the interlinked challenges of fighting rural poverty and feeding a growing – and increasingly young – population in a sustainable way. Achieving food security for all is at the heart of FAO’s mandate and given the prevalence of poverty and food insecurity among rural youth, they have long been a target of FAO’s activities. Furthermore, the Organization has recently strengthened its commitment to rural youth in its new Strategic Framework. This framework focuses FAO’s ef forts and resources on achieving five strategic objectives. Underlying the third strategic objective – reducing rural poverty – is an explicit emphasis on the promotion of decent employment opportunities for rural youth. This reflects the importance that FAO assigns to youth development as a catalyst for reducing poverty and improving food and nutrition security. It also signals FAO’s intent to address youth employment in a comprehensive way, redirecting expertise and efforts throughout the Orga nization.

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