News

January 2011

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   I-News

   New UN report says rural women face increasing inequality: Calls for policies enabling women to drive rural economic growth and poverty reduction

   21 January 2011

   A new United Nations interagency report on the gender dimension of agricultural work says women still benefit less than men from rural employment and face new challenges due to the current economic and food crises.

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   UN Agencies to launch new report on gender and work in agricultural and rural areas

   19 January 2011

March 2009

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   Food security

   Tripartite Technical Workshop on the Impact of the Food Price Crisis on Decent Work

   09 March 2009

   The ILO held a two-day workshop on 5-6 March 2009 on the global food crisis and its impact on decent work. The meeting recommended measures to achieve global food security and to involve networks of employers and workers organizations in the development and delivery of national plans to do so.

October 2008

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   Microinsurance

   Peru: Microinsurance paves the way for social protection in rural areas

   14 October 2008

   A large insurance firm and an association of water irrigation users have teamed up to become the first providers of micro-life insurance for millions of small farmers in Peru. The project, which has received support from the ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will allow a third of rural families in Peru to have access to social protection for the first time. ILO reports from Lima.

June 2008

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   News item

   ILO and FAO launch a new joint website on "Food, Agriculture and Decent Work"

   06 June 2008

   The International Labour Office (ILO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today launched a new website designed to highlight the many areas in which they already work together and others in which they are contemplating joint activities.