When 8850 Form Rural 2016-2023

Over three-quarters of the world's poor live in rural areas most depend on agriculture to earn a living however rural employment opportunities are often informal poorly paid and even hazardous the challenges are continuous global unemployment crisis paired with severe underemployment in the world and a growing youth population and has lack of opportunities for looking more and better jobs in the rural areas is an urgent / people need better jobs to be able to access food it's not only looking into the quantitative aspects employment creation enterprise development but also qualitative aspect so standards and rights at work Social Protection social dialogue Occupational Safety and Health for instance is a major priority but also the need to reduce gender and age inequalities in the rural areas they need to eliminate child labour in agriculture for instance and forced labour also which unfortunately is still very present in the cultural sector we need to make sure that those investments are not only going into improved agricultural productivity through technology development and adaptation but we also need to invest into the people who actually bring about through their abilities the change in the rule space that we want to see investments that are employment enhancing investment that are not harming the working conditions in the rural areas and at the same time are improving the job prospects for the rural people there is a great recognition that employment needs to be addressed explicitly Pfau certainly provides the the knowledge and information the evidence that is needed to guide policy action debora culture sector is still a huge untapped potential not only to create more jobs in the rural areas but also to improve the working conditions and the productivity potential of the agricultural workers we are very hopeful that within...