25/05/2018
27-year-old Amiat Ahmed and her two-year-old son live with Amiat’s parents in the South Wollo Zone of Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Like many other young people in her region, Amiat used to feel that there were limited opportunities to earn income in her village, which led to her decision to migrate...

24/04/2018
Since 2015, FAO has been working to make Senegalese agri-food systems more youth-inclusive, through its Integrated Country Approach (ICA) for promoting decent rural employment and in partnership with the Agence Nationale pour la Promotion de l'Emploi des Jeunes (ANPEJ).Senegal is a youthful country, with over 60 percent of people below the...

26/03/2018
Forests are integral to providing environmental, social and economic services to the people in the Philippines. Alarmingly, forest cover declined from 16.9 million hectares in 1934 to 8.04 million hectares in 2015. To address this problem, FAO through its Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FLRM) is supporting the government of...

19/02/2018
Facilitar el empleo de los jóvenes en las áreas rurales puede frenar la migración a las ciudades y a otros países, señaló hoy la FAO, que destacó la experiencia de dos programas de cooperación en Etiopía y Túnez. La especialista de la Organización de la ONU para la Alimentación y la...