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While many people, especially youth, leave rural areas in search of better opportunities, returning migrants struggle to reintegrate in rural communities. Creating alternatives to migration and reintegrating migrants in rural areas is one of the priorities of FAO’s work on rural migration. It aims to help people find decent jobs...

The effects of climate change are threatening the viability of rural livelihoods and increasing pressures to migrate. Managing climate mobility is one of the priorities of FAO’s work on rural migration. It aims to help people build climate-resilient livelihoods and thereby reduce the pressure to migrate; and help migrants and...

Dans le cadre du projet de la FAO Renforcer la résilience dans la région du Sahel par la création d’emplois pour les jeunes, soutenu financièrement par le Ministère fédéral allemand de l'alimentation et de l'agriculture (BMEL), différents programmes d'emploi ont été mis en place en Mauritanie, en partenariat avec le Gouvernement....

FAO reaffirmed its commitment to mobilize diaspora contributions to rural development through the participation in the Global Forum on Remittances, Investments and Development (GFRID), which took place in Nairobi on 14-16 June 2023. The forum, organized every two years by IFAD’s Financing Facility for Remittances together with the UN Office of...