Last week the social protection webpage in the FAO in emergencies website was launched! The idea behind the creation of this webpage is that to increase the visibility of social protection as...

The Cash+ experience from Kyrgyzstan has vividly demonstrated how integrated measures could support and empower the most vulnerable and thus contribute to accelerating progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

The COVID-19 pandemic is, directly and indirectly, impacting health and well-being around the globe. Illness and containment measures are compounding the social and economic disadvantages of the most vulnerable in...

Measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 include strong restrictions of movement which dramatically change daily lives and impact agricultural livelihoods. These measures are particularly difficult for the rural poorest...

Social protection must be seen as an investment in communities’ resilience. That was one of the key messages coming out of Cultivate Africa, a two-day online event (17-18 November) on COVID-19...

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) participó en la Conferencia Virtual “Transformando la crisis del COVID-19 en oportunidad: ¿Cuál es el futuro de...

The Gender-sensitive social protection toolkit is now available in two additional language versions: Spanish and French Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main benefic

The COVID-19 outbreak continues to spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)/Arab States region, with 913,226 confirmed cases and 22,500 associated deaths as of 6 July 2020. It is...

FAO’s Cash+ pilot has supported vulnerable rural families, over 800 people in total, to maintain their livelihoods and make them more resilient to shocks such as the current crisis.

This information note aims at outlining what are child labour and social protection, how social protection can significantly contribute to eliminating child labour in agriculture, and what are FAO’s planned...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has provided 4 500 drought-affected pastoral households in the Somali region of Ethiopia with unconditional cash transfers to meet their immediate needs...

29/01/2020 - Today, the Government of Rwanda and One UN in Rwanda have launched a new project aimed to support Rwanda’s efforts towards ending poverty in all its forms and reduce...

At an international conference held in Freetown from 21 to 23 January, FAO laid out the case for investing in social protection programmes and promoting strong articulation between the social...

With more than 120 million people worldwide dependent on fisheries and aquaculture for their livelihoods – and another 1.6 billion on forests – this article by FAO colleagues featured in...

FAO South-South Cooperation (SSC) convenes 14 countries in Kenya on linkages between Social Protection, Agriculture and Resilience | read this story online   21/11/12019 Nairobi – More than 113 million people across Africa...

FAO recognizes that those living in rural areas whose livelihoods depend heavily on natural resources, are disproportionately affected by climate risks because of their great likelihood of living in high-risk...

A group of FAO experts shared their knowledge and latest findings on social protection with policy-makers and government representatives who took part in this year’s edition of the Academy on...

The new corporate brochure on FAO's work on Social Protection highlights the important role that social protection plays in addressing many of the barriers poor rural households face in building...

Experts highlighted the critical role of social protection in the fisheries sector and its potential to mitigate economic shocks, climate change impacts and socio-economic inequalities.

The priority themes for this year’s edition of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) - being held UN Headquarters in New York from 11-22 March 2019 - are...