Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

The aim of the guidance note on elimination of child labour in agriculture through social protection is to enable practitioners at national, regional and global levels to adapt social protection systems...

This review aims to look into the consequences of (1) the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures put in place to mitigate the spread of the pandemic and (2) the policies and programmatic responses to mitigate socio-economic consequences...

Modern inputs and mechanization are promoted across Africa to raise smallholder labor productivity and broker the structural transformation. Yet, adoption has remained low and the implications...

Overall, in the four sampled countries, small producers of cocoa remain rather poor and cocoa cannot be their only sufficient source of revenues. However, their...

This paper provides insights and evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic and related policy responses to curb its spread influence the risk of child labour in agriculture through different...

The FAO-IFPRI study, of which this policy brief is a summary, focuses on the use of tractors because they are among the most versatile farm mechanization tools and are universal...

The FAO-IFPRI study, focuses on the use of tractors because they are among the most versatile farm mechanization tools and are universal power sources for all other...

The challenge of ending child labour remains widespread around the world with 160 million children engaged in child labour. Approximately half of these children are engaged...

The Cocoa Barometer 2020 provides an overview of the current sustainability developments in the cocoa sector and highlights critical issues. While previous Cocoa Barometers mainly focussed on...

Child labour remains a persistent problem in the world today. The latest global estimates indicate that 160 million children – 63 million girls and 97 million...