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12/06/2008

Youth in the rural environment

Documents and links

Documents

• Education and Food For All. A Compendium of FAO Experience in Basic Education. Katia Noseck Sommer; Lydia Sorflaten; Johanne Lortie. "Informal Task Force on Education and Food for All". October, 2001.
  Food security and education are inter-linked. What is the role of education in reducing by half the 800 million people denied access to enough food to meet their basic needs? This compendium of FAO's experiences with "Education and Food for All" shares descriptions of cases that can contribute to the process of enabling rural people to improve their lives and livelihoods. The examples focus on Education and Training in Nutrition and Health, Agriculture/Forestry, Environment, Community Development, and Business Management. The cases will be of special interest to primary and secondary school teachers and students, rural youth, adult community groups, and rural development specialists.

• YouthWorks. Volume 15. In support of Rural Youth Development Worldwide, october, 2002. FAO

• Expert Consultation on Extension Rural Youth Programmes and Sustainable Development. FAO. Rome, Italy
  29 November - 1 December 1995. Prepared by the Agricultural Extension and Education Service (SDRE), Research, Extension and Training Division with the editorial assistance of Jonathan F. Cook.

  This is FAO's second expert consultation on rural youth. The first entitled Expert Consultation on Rural Youth and Young Farmers in Developing Countries was held in 1985 as part of the United Nations International Youth Year. Over the past ten years many changes have taken place that affect rural young people and programmes that work with them. A whole new set of circumstances place youth at high risk in rural areas, including limited access to land and natural resources, HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, violence, discrimination, broken families, and high birth rates among adolescent girls. Continuing lack of educational opportunities and limited possibilities of gainful employment, combined with low standards of living, cause rural youth to migrate to the cities in even greater numbers than a decade ago. Government rural youth programmes are faced with new challenges caused by structural adjustment, downsizing, reorganization and reduced budgets.

  Background papers:

  • Comparative international analysis of rural youth policy in developing countries: Coping with diversity and change.
  • Extension rural youth programmes: Part of a comprehensive strategy for sustainable development in developing countries.
  • Extension rural youth programmes: Summary of country papers
  • Professional research and knowledge bases for rural youth programmes in developing countries
  • FAO's role in support of rural youth programmes and possibilities for the future.

    Issue papers: Youth policy and resources related to rural youth programmes. Rigoberto Pérez-Morales. Coordinator, International Programmes. National Foundation of 4-S Clubs, San José, Costa Rica.

• Integration of population education into programmes for out-of-school rural youth: a review of pilot activities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Günter Hemrich, Consultant. Agricultural Extension and Education Service Research, Training and Extension Division FAO Sustainable Development Department. FAO, Rome, 1996

Links

• Rural Youth Development - FAO

• Rural Youth Livelihoods
  The Rural Youth Livelihoods Project (RYLP) is focused on understanding the livelihood strategies of youth in rural East Africa. The project is being funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) Natural Resources Systems Programme (NRSP).The site also provides links to other organisations and web-based resources relating to youth and development issues.

Events

• 22nd International Workshop for Rural Youth Leaders (GERMANY). 23rd June to 8th July 2004, Training Centre of the Bavarian Farmer´s Association in Herrsching.