Prosperity in place for youth: meaningful work for mobile youth that enhances forest landscapes
Future generations are shaped by the opportunities afforded now to youth. Yet youth - defined here as those between 15-24 years of age – make up close to half the world’s unemployed. Rural rates of unemployment are particularly high. This is especially so for young women. United Nations figures class 75 percent of youth as underutilised. By this they mean: unemployed, in irregular (informal jobs), or outside of formal education and training. Underutilised youth are a missed opportunity. This report is written for the leaders of Forest and Farm Producer Organisations (FFPOs). In rural areas, FFPOs are often the major, or sometimes only employers. Set up to pursue the values of their members, FFPOs contribute to rural prosperity: namely ‘a negotiated vision of that which people value and have reason to value in line with the common good’. All people have their own vision of what prosperity looks like – and that is why a negotiation of a collective vision is important – so that the perceptions of different groups of people, such as youth, are taken into account.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Rome (Italy) FAO/IIED
2020
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| Subjects: | rural youth, youth employment, forestry development, development plans, SDGs, Goal 8 Decent work and economic growth, Goal 15 Life on land, |
| Online Access: | http://www.fao.org/3/ca8209en/CA8209EN.pdf https://doi.org/10.4060/ca8209en |
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