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Education for Rural People: a neglected key to food security

Working Paper n° 78, 2007








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    Education for Rural People (ERP) is crucial to achieving by 2015 the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger (No. 1), achieving universal primary education (No. 2), promoting gender equality (No. 3) and ensuring environmental sustainability (No. 7). The World Food Summit, held in Rome in 1996, highlighted the need to increase access to education for the poor and the members of disadvantaged groups, including rural people, in order to achieve pove rty eradication, food security, durable peace and sustainable development. The 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), held in Johannesburg, also emphasized the role of education. As the majority of the world’s poor, illiterate and undernourished live in rural areas, it is a major challenge to ensure their access to quality education. The lack of learning opportunities is directly related to rural poverty. Hence, education and training strategies need to be integrated within sustainable rural development strategies, through plans of action that are multisectoral and interdisciplinary. This means creating new partnerships among policy-makers and practitioners working in agriculture and rural development and those working in education.
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    An account of the workshop which convened from 26 to 27 January 2005 in Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic and brought together 61 rural youth from 18 provinces in the country to discuss the needs, constraints and challenges confronting young people. Youth make up a large proportion of populations in Asia and the Pacific region, many of whom live in poor, rural areas and lack adequate education and training and/or or are unemployed – conditions that make them vulnerable to exploitation in unsafe and unfair occupations with negative consequences (such as prostitution, HIV/AIDS and drug abuse). In the Lao People's Democratic Republic, 36 percent of the youth aged 10 to 25 have never attended school. Only 17 percent complete upper secondary school. Although working in agricultural fields is a daily duty for most rural youth, many consider themselves unemployed owing to the irregular and seasonal income from their endeavours. A large number move to urban areas where boys usually find employment in the construction industry while girls work in the garment industry, restaurants and entertainment localities where they may become involved in the sex industry. The report includes summaries of the group discussions and presentations as well as recommendations for improving the prospects of rural youth in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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    Education for Rural People as a component of a Rural Development Strategy for Croatia
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    The report takes place within the FAO Technical Cooperation Project (TCP) according to the request of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) of Croatia. The project is entitled A Rural Development Strategy for Croatia (RDS) and this document is one input for the strategy that will be defined. As rural development relies on several factors, the project also includes other components besides education. These other components are agro-environment, rural finance and forestry. The objective s of this report are i) to present the findings of an analysis of basic education in rural areas of Croatia and, ii) to recommend measures to improve access and quality of education for rural people, which in turn, will contribute to rural development. Therefore, after a brief presentation of the context and justifications of this report, the document presents the problems found in relation to each level of education and from these, proposes measures to ensure that education in rural areas is contributing to rural development.

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