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The Green Jobs for Rural Youth Employment (GJ4RYE) project promotes green jobs through skills training in land reclamation, organic horticulture, and beekeeping. Youth participants, coming from diverse backgrounds including former miners and recent graduates, are employed under a Wage Employment Initiative to rehabilitate mined-out lands for agricultural use. 

Since 2011, FAO has been implementing the Integrated Country Approach (ICA) programme to assist countries in developing inclusive agrifood policies, strategies and programmes for the promotion of youth engagement and employment in agrifood systems. The programme has primarily been funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and implemented...

10 December 2023, Dubai – During a dedicated COP28 side event, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched a new study on the links between Climate change, migration and rural adaptation in the Near East and North Africa region. The study provides an evidence base for policymakers and practitioners working...