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12/06/2008

Youth in the rural environment

 

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.

More than 800 million people do not have access to enough food to meet their basic requirements, and about the same number of adults are illiterate, while about 130 million children are out of school. Poverty is a major cause of food insecurity and sustainable progress in poverty eradication is critical in improving access to food. More than 1.3 billion people worldwide live in poverty and nearly three fourths of them live in rural areas. Virtually all of them depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. Since the poor and the food insecure are in most cases also the less educated, education, and specifically basic education, can bring a key contribution to the reduction of poverty and hunger and the fostering of rural development.

FAO's strategy and key ideas for support to education and training have emerged from a learning process through dialogue with the international community and reflection on a wide range of valuable experience gained through FAO supported programmes and projects throughout the world. FAO has for many years been supporting activities which fall within the concept of basic education. A recent research study by the SDRE, FAO, has analysed and extracted lessons learned from many of these activities. FAO has built up a solid record of support for basic education, and now provides the basis for a newly articulated approach, illustrated by the experiences presented in this resource.

A diverse range of programmes and activities is described in these pages. The organisation of this resource is based on a framework which is in keeping with the overall systemic approach suggested by FAO.

For further information: http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/sustdev/2001/kn1003_en.htm