Creating JOBS and GROWTH

About three-quarters of the world’s poor rely on agriculture and natural resources for food and livelihoods. More than 85% of the world’s 1.2 billion youth live in developing countries where meaningful employment and entrepreneurial opportunities are limited – contributing to migration and political insecurity. Stable rural and urban development requires jobs for the growing number and proportion of young people in the coming decades. Mechanization in food systems presents both opportunities for productivity and employment risks for some. Growth in the rural economy will be dependent not only on increasing jobs in agriculture but also wealth accumulation to allow farm family members to find off-farm employment. The Blue Economy is an often overlooked but critical element of livelihoods and sustainability.

CGIAR and the Sustainable Development Goals

CGIAR research to improve livelihoods and reduce gender inequalities contributes strongly to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and targets for the 2030 agenda, to address:

Creating JOBS and GROWTH

CGIAR and the Sustainable Development Goals

News

WorldFish’s Shakuntala Thilsted joins experts to lead UN Food Systems Summit

Ivan Morrison, of the University of Edinburgh, formerly of ILRAD, awarded the inaugural Plowright Prize for his lifelong research towards a vaccine for East Coast fever

Gendering migration: how straightforward is it?

Transforming African food systems for a resilient future

Diving into diverse human-ocean relationships bares the base of a fair blue economy

New alliance for better dairy animal nutrition in Kenya will work to advance ‘human nutrition, success and progress’

Events

CFS 47 Partner Event: Building Forward Better with Aquatic Foods

2DI Blue Challenge: Global Stakeholder Consultation

Virtual Event - Ethiopia’s agri-food system: Past trends, present challenges, and future scenarios

Virtual Dialogues: Building Forward Better with Aquatic Foods

Virtual Event - How are food businesses coping with COVID-19 and its aftermath?

Climate Smart Value Chains (CSVC) Lift

Publications

Ethiopia's agrifood system: Past trends, present challenges, and future scenarios

Gender, labor migration and changes in small-scale farming on Vietnam's north-central coast

Regreening Africa: Consolidated Baseline Survey Report

Policy Gaps and Opportunities for Scaling Agroforestry in sub-Saharan Africa

Biochar producing gasifier cooking system for enhanced fuelwood efficiency, women’s wellbeing and sustainable agroecosystems in Kenya

Making smallholder agricultural production work: What we can learn from the socioeconomic and agrarian transformation through agro-well access in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka