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August 31, 2022, marked the first anniversary of the African Youth Agripreneurs (AYA) platform, an online community designed for rural youth and entrepreneurs to connect, share and learn from each other in their journey to embrace agriculture as a decent work and profitable business. The platform, launched and supported by FAO’s...

This document describe the good practice of a youth-inclusive policymaking process supported in Uganda between 2015 and 2022 under the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Integrated Country Approach (ICA) for boosting decent jobs for youth in the agrifood system. The document describes the different steps that...

This review aims to look into the consequences of (1) the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures put in place to mitigate the spread of the pandemic and (2) the policies and programmatic responses to mitigate socio-economic consequences of the pandemic and how they have potentially interacted with child labour drivers,...

Through the ICA project, this country information and data overview factsheet for Uganda has been developed to situate the youth employment in agrifood challenges and potentials, with prospects for laying the ground for the development of the action plan and monitoring and evaluation system for the national strategy for youth...

This paper provides insights on how the COVID-19 pandemic and related policy responses to curb its spread increase the risk of child labour through different pathways. It draws on case studies from seven countries covering different production systems: Côte d’Ivoire (cocoa), Ethiopia (cattle keeping and farming), (Lebanon (horticulture and greenhouse...