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FAO at the Global Forum on Remittances, Investments and Development (GFRID)
2023
FAO reaffirmed its commitment to mobilize diaspora contributions to rural development through the participation in the Global Forum on Remittances, Investments and Development (GFRID), which took place in Nairobi on 14-16 June 2023.
The forum, organized every two years by IFAD’s Financing Facility for Remittances together with the UN Office of...
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From honeycombs to green jobs: Empowering Zimbabwe's rural youth through beekeeping
2023
The FAO Green Jobs for Rural Youth Employment (GJ4RYE) project is transforming lives in Zimbabwe by creating green jobs, particularly in beekeeping. The initiative provides technical training and support, promoting biodiversity conservation while generating profits from bee-products.
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The relations between climate change and child labour in agriculture - Evidence on children’s work trends after climate-related events in Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Nepal and Peru
2023
Climate change-related events undermine children’s educational attainment, exposing them to child labour, hazardous work and forced migration. This nexus is particularly relevant for agriculture and its subsectors: indeed, they absorb about 26 percent of the economic impacts of climate change-related disasters and host 70 percent of all child labour. This...
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Digitalization and child labour in agriculture - Exploring blockchain and Geographic Information Systems to monitor and prevent child labour in Ghana’s cocoa sector. Design paper
2023
This paper assesses the potential role of blockchain technology and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in collecting and sharing data on cocoa-growing areas in Ghana, and how this could contribute to monitoring and ultimately preventing child labour in those areas.
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Witnessing the impact of flexible funding in Africa
2023
Kampala, Uganda – "Uganda is Africa in miniature," said Susan Ngongi Namondo, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Uganda, at the wrap up of the Flexible Voluntary Contribution (FVC) Resource Partners' Field Trip, held in Uganda from 1 to 5 May. "All the development challenges that are faced in the rest of...
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