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This e-learning course allows to understand the linkages between migration and rural development with a particular focus on youth. It also provides policy recommendations on how to maximize the positive impacts of rural migration and minimize the negative ones.

Osman Sheikh Ali is a 24-year-old father of two children and comes from Marka, a city in the southern Lower Shebelle province of Somalia. He is currently working in Bossaso, at the Hidik Boat Factory managed by the 34-year-old director, Yasin Hassan Mohamed. Both Osman and Yacine have benefitted from...

The FAO project Youth mobility, food security and rural poverty reduction (abbreviated as "RYM" – Rural Youth Mobility) was successfully completed in February 2018. With funding from the Italian Development Cooperation, RYM was launched in 2015 to address the main drivers of rural migration of youth in Tunisia and Ethiopia,...