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Measuring the impacts of climate change on the rural poor, women and youth: Summary
2024Measuring the impacts of climate change on the rural poor, women and youths report assembles an impressive set of data from 24 low- and middle-income countries in five world regions to measure the effects of climate change on rural women, youths and people living in poverty. It analyses socioeconomic data collected from 109 341 rural households (representing over 950 million rural people) in these 24 countries. These data are combined in both space and time with 70 years of georeferenced data on daily precipitation and temperatures. The data enable us to disentangle how different types of climate stressors affect people’s on-farm, off-farm and total incomes, labour allocations and adaptive actions, depending on their wealth, gender and age characteristics. The brief summarizes the key messages and findings. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetFood Coalition - A global alliance to prevent a health crisis from becoming a food crisis 2021COVID-19 has reached every part of the world with long-term impact on food systems, food security and nutrition. The crisis has affected food production, health of farmers, access to agricultural inputs, access to markets, rural jobs and livelihoods, and has led to a decrease in both rural and urban demand of food due to loss of jobs and incomes. The crisis has demonstrated the urgency and the need for coordinated collective action at the global level to prevent the global health crisis from becoming a food crisis. The Food Coalition is a multi-stakeholder global alliance, a network of networks which facilitates unified global action in response to and recovery from COVID-19. The Coalition aims to mobilize financial resources, innovation and technical expertise, promote advocacy initiatives and establish a neutral space for dialogue among a diverse body of key stakeholders in support of countries most in need. The Food Coalition also represents a strong commitment to the 2030 Agenda. The Coalition will support efforts to help countries get back on track to meet SDG1 and SDG2 (end poverty and hunger), and in particular, work to transform agri-food systems, improve nutrition, increase agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale and family farmers, raise standards of living in rural areas, and address disruptions caused by the pandemic and its impact on vulnerable groups, especially women, youth, and indigenous peoples.
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Book (series)Evaluation of FAO’s country programme in Sierra Leone 2012–2019 2021
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No results found.The agriculture sector in Sierra Leone accounts for 60 percent of GDP and 58 percent of total employment. More than 58 percent of the country’s population live in rural areas and 86.1 percent of this population are engaged in smallholder subsistence agricultural production. Ten years of civil conflict and the Ebola epidemic in 2014 negatively affected food security and the country’s overall socio-economic situation. The country is particularly vulnerable to extreme events such as food chain crises and natural hazards which have a direct impact on food security and livelihoods. This evaluation aims to identify lessons learned and provide strategic recommendations on how FAO programmes can be better oriented in Sierra Leone. FAO’s overall contribution to developmental challenges was assessed in the priority areas defined in the CPFs covering 2012–16 and 2017–19. The evaluation comprised an examination of associated outcome areas related to support to smallholder commercialization, natural resources management, and effective response to disasters and increasing social productivity and resilience. The review also evaluated crosscutting issues, including gender equality and women’s empowerment, climate resilience, nutrition, capacity development and youth employment. The evaluation used different methods to collect the views of the beneficiaries and other stakeholders, such as structured focus group discussions, structured key informant interviews, direct observation, and workshops. The fieldwork took place with actors from projects across five districts: Bo, Bombali, Kenema, Kono, and Port Loko. The evaluation found evidence of significant and sustainable results in a range of areas of FAO’s activities, including policy-related work, from adoption of legislation to policy influence, piloting of approaches, and standards and regulatory frameworks. Likewise, results leading to livelihoods improvements, empowerment and adoption of more sustainable organizational practices, technologies and skills were found. Nevertheless, the programme failed to aggregate activities and interventions in a programmatic and coherent portfolio. FAOs capacity to deliver sustainable and consistent results, with strong partnerships and complementary action, was often undermined by lack of, or weak systems and functions. FAO should use the development of the new CPF as a way to re-design its strategic footprint in the country and reach its full potential, despite the limiting factors. To do this, FAO could consider adopting an area-based approach, implementing a programmatic, multi-stakeholder and cross sectoral adaptive approach based on regions/districts.
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