On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2017, FAO joins the world to recognize the importance of ending poverty in all its forms everywhere to build a future free of hunger, based on peace and prosperity. A focus on food, agriculture and rural livelihoods must play a pivotal role...

The two UN Organizations join forces to prove common perceptions on cash transfers are wrong, showing how social protection can help achieve SDG1 and SDG2.

In Zimbabwe, over 70 percent of the population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods. Climate change is threatening agricultural productivity and exacerbating some of Zimbabwe’s key agricultural challenges: low soil fertility, reliance on rain-fed systems, poorly functioning markets, and farmers’ limited access to credit, knowledge and best practices. 

The second phase of the Land Administration Project in Honduras (PATH II) involved a study to determine to which degree supporting the security of tenure improves livelihoods in poor households.

Nearly 56 percent of the rural population in Mali lives in poverty with limited resources to invest in agricultural activities. Among those, about 3 million people are classified as being at risk of food insecurity with limited access to social assistance or social services in general.