Social protection can play an important role in ensuring that poor and vulnerable people meet their nutritional needs. What are the factors at play? This episode helps explain how social...

The UN General Assembly has declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022) to enhance global awareness and promote collaboration around the theme. To provide...

New York - Latin America is an agricultural powerhouse yet has suffered a sharp rise in hunger in recent years, highlighting the need for robust actions to transform the region’s agrifood...

Food and social protection are human rights. In these times of crisis, the right to food of millions is at risk. Hunger is on the rise. Extending social protection can...

FAO e-learning academy has just released a new series called “Social Protection in Rural Areas: building responsive systems in the context of Covid19”: https://elearning.fao.org/course/view.php?id=604. These videos were developed as part of...

Hue city, Vietnam - FAO met with representatives from the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (DOLISA) and the Quang Dien District Authority to identify how to embed anticipatory...

27 June 2022, Nairobi – FAO brought together FAO Social Protection Focal Points from 35 countries in Africa, including social protection specialists from the FAO Regional Office and Headquarters for a Regional...

Pakistan – Umarkot, Ratnor, Tharparkar. Under the European Commission - ECHO funded project “Increasing capacities and scale for Anticipatory Action including through Social Protection systems”, FAO was in Sindh Province,...

FAO supports Senegal in the creation of a Centre of Excellence for Social Protection. The overall objective of the Centre of Excellence for Social Protection (CEPS), an initiative of the...

Autogenous response of producers' organizations is particularly important considering the physical risks involved in fishing activities.

During the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022) [KM(1] the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will launch Strengthening coherence between social protection and fisheries policies:...

The Ukraine crisis that began on 24 February has not only created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis but a looming increase in food insecurity, in countries both close and far from...

In this video, FAO presents its approach to mitigate the impact of disasters that threaten lives, livelihoods and food security and impact on the resilience of agrifood systems: linking anticipatory...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed an e-learning course on social protection and inclusive climate risk management, with financial support from the European Union...

COVID-19 crisis: extending social protection to rural populations is key to recovery The expansion of social protection for rural populations is a prerequisite for a sustainable, inclusive and resilient recovery from...

In the scope of the 60th Session of the Commission for Social Development, FAO Chief Economist spoke about the role of social protection and agri-food systems in a post-pandemic recovery.  For all those working...

In the light of the 60th Session of the Commission for Social Development (#CSocD60) - the key United Nations body in charge of the follow up and implementation of the...

In this episode, socialprotection.org bring three guests to spotlight non-COVID related news, papers and events from the year just gone. They'll talk about how to design safety nets to reduce...

The paper contains a joint statement by the Social Protection Interagency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B), a coordination mechanism comprising of a broad swath of intergovernmental and bilateral agencies engaged in social...

The 'Social Protection and Rural Poverty' micro-course was launched on 19 April. In this free and self-paced programme you will learn how social protection can contribute to inclusive transformation and...