All publications: Forestry, wood, pulp and paper

Cooperatives for People-Centred Rural Development

Key issues and policy options to promote the cooperative business model in rural areas.

Empowering rural communities through financial inclusion

Key issues and policy options to promote access to financial services for rural communities.

Strengthening rural labour inspection for high-quality and productive jobs

Key issues and policy options to promote labour inspection in agricultural and other rural enterprises.

Productive and safe work in forestry

Key issues and policy options to promote productive, decent jobs in the forestry sector.

Sustainable Fishing: Decent Working Conditions, Safety and Social Protection

Key issues and policy options to promote productive, decent jobs in the fisheries sector.

Stimulating Rural Growth, Jobs and Income through Tourism

Key issues and policy options to promote productive, decent jobs in the tourism sector.

Eliminating child labour in rural areas through decent work

Key issues and policy options to eliminate child labour in rural areas through decent work.

Boosting Rural Areas’ Resilience to Conflicts and Disasters

Key issues and policy options to boost resilience of rural areas to crises, such as conflicts and disasters.

Creating opportunities for rural communities affected by HIV and AIDS

Key issues and policy options to create opportunities for rural communities affected by HIV and AIDS.

Unlocking indigenous peoples’ potential for sustainable rural development

Key issues and policy options to unlock the potential for sustainable rural development among indigenous and tribal peoples.

Labour Migration Governance for Rural Development

Key issues and policy options for migration governance for rural development.

Skills development, employment services and local economic recovery for the construction sector (Final Evaluation Evaluation Summary)

Project LEB/07/03/ITA - Evaluation consultant: Wolfgang Schwegler-Rohmeis and Khalil Asmar

Rural Policy Briefs: Labour Migration Governance for Rural Development

Migration provides many poor rural households with a livelihood strategy. However, it can also disrupt local employment, undermine family and community cohesion and engender dangerous and exploitative working conditions.

Gender-equitable rural work to reduce poverty and boost economic growth

Decent work is central to reducing poverty and achieving equitable, inclusive and sustainable development. Unleashing rural women’s socio-economic potential and fighting rural poverty involves tackling a number of decent work gaps: low productivity...

Investing in skills for socio-economic empowerment of rural women

Skills development is key to improving rural productivity, employability and income-earning opportunities, enhancing food security and promoting environmentally sustainable rural development and livelihoods. Despite rural women’s major role in...

Rural women’s entrepreneurship is “good business”!

Rural women increasingly run their own enterprises, yet their socio-economic contributions and entrepreneurial potential remain largely unrecognized and untapped. They are concentrated in informal, micro-size, low productivity and low-return...

Agricultural value chain development: Threat or opportunity for women’s employment?

Agricultural markets are rapidly globalizing, generating new consumption patterns and new production and distribution systems. Value chains, often controlled by multinational or national firms and supermarkets, are capturing a growing share of the...

Women in infrastructure works: Boosting gender equality and rural development!

Gender is an important but largely neglected aspect of infrastructure planning and provision. Rural women pay a particularly high price for the lack of infrastructure, in time spent accessing water for domestic or agricultural uses, processing and...

Making migration work for women and men in rural labour markets

Many poor rural households see migration to urban or other rural areas, or abroad, as a strategy to escape poverty or improve the quality of their lives. Migration patterns vary by continent and even countries within continents, and change over...

Breaking the rural poverty cycle: Getting girls and boys out of work and into school

Instead of attending school, millions of girls and boys in rural areas worldwide are child labourers. They are everywhere, but often hidden, on farms, on fishing boats, in plantations, in mountain areas, herding livestock or toiling as domestic...