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The right to adequate food and decent rural employment: joining forces

Year of publication 2016

Pages 2p.

Author Right to Food Team (ESA), Decent Rural Employment Team (ESP)

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Category Brochure

ISBN No ISBN

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This advocacy brief explores in practice the linkages between the right to adequate food and rural decent employment and how they can mutually reinforce each other and maximize the results achieved with national and local partners. Its objective is to focus on raising awareness and increasing understanding on the synergies between decent employment in rural areas and the right to adequate food in order to jointly strengthen and provide new important and more comprehensive entry points to existin g policy processes whenever possible in countries where work on DRE is ongoing.

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