This report provides new evidence for monitoring trends in food security and nutrition within the framework of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. The publication focuses on migration, gender, youth, and the linkages with rural development and food security in the region. Migration is tied in multiple ways to gender, youth, and agricultural and rural developme...

This paper examines the patterns and drivers of rural migration in sub-Saharan Africa and explores their relation to rural and structural transformation, with the objective of informing the current policy debate on migration. Based on a mixed approach that combines a critical literature review covering past, current and future drivers of migration and analyses of a...

FAO's Gender and Rural Advisory Services Assessment Tool (GRAST) is designed to support providers of rural advisory services in their efforts to develop gender-sensitive programmes. By undertaking a gender assessment of rural advisory services at policy, organizational and individual levels, GRAST provides entry points for improving the gender-responsiveness of th...