Resources
FAO's Integrated Country Approach (ICA) for promoting decent rural employment - Results and stories from the field
2018
Publications
Back to the future: ICA cultivates the young generation of farmers
2018
Youth around the world are increasingly turning away from agriculture. Traditionally requiring tough manual labour and offering low wages, agriculture is not appealing to new generations who often prefer to try their luck finding jobs in cities. Yet, agriculture, the world's oldest and most entrenched industry, has the greatest potential of...
News
Yapasa: Developing youth-led enterprises in rural areas of Zambia
2018
FAO, ILO and the Zambian Government have worked together for the past 5 years to address youth employment issues through the USD7.6 million Yapasa Project, funded by the Government of Sweden. The intervention aims at facilitating the creation of sustainable employment opportunities for young women and men in rural areas of...
News