To the international community, Brazil’s record on food security and social protection until relatively recently was exemplary, even enviable. The level of child stunting in Brazil fell from 25% in the mid-1980s to 15% in the mid-...
To the international community, Brazil’s record on food security and social protection until relatively recently was exemplary, even enviable. The level of child stunting in Brazil fell from 25% in the mid-1980s to 15% in the mid-...
Two women who received World Food Programme school-feeding support as children on their passion for serving WFP as humanitarian workers today. Joyce Namoe, a programme associate with the World Food Programme in Uganda, joined WFP...
In a world grappling with the dual challenges of climate change and socio-economic inequalities and vulnerability, fostering coherence between social protection (SP) and climate action becomes imperative, a Climate Centre brief ...
In 2020, South Sudan witnessed the first locust invasion in over 70 years. The locusts destroyed crops and grazing land in many parts of the country, significantly affecting the incomes and food security of thousands of people, the...
WFP works with the Government of Cambodia to promote gender equality, access to quality education, nutritious diets and social assistance for children in the country's pre-primary and primary schools. “School meals contribute to...
UNICEF welcomes the Sultanate of Oman’s launch of its comprehensive, integrated and progressive social protection system aligned with Oman Vision 2040, the 10th Five-Year Development Plan and the Sustainable Development Goals. The...
Access to social protection is a fundamental human right, yet a recent ...
The problems facing low-income families have worsened owing to rising global food prices. Consumers in the western economies have seen the cost of their weekly shop rise sharply. Food bank use in Britain has surged as a result of a...
Cash transfers are the epicenter of social protection action. Such programs are shielding up to nearly 800 million people from inflation, they covered 1.3 billion individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their use in humanitarian settings more...
Improving coherence between social protection and fisheries policies is a starting point to ensure that fishers’ needs are met, and vulnerabilities are accounted for. FAO recently published a framework guided by the SSF Guidelines...
The new law marks the culmination of an ambitious reform process led by Tawazun, the high-level government programme for fiscal balance (now Estidamah), with the close support of the ILO. The comprehensive reforms entail a complete...
Meet Abdessalem, Taher, and Marbouka, fishers from Tunisia. Through their voices, discover their work, challenges, and the obstacles they face in accessing social protection. Find out more about FAO's social protection initiative...
