Ed
Publication Date
August 2006
5 p
The aim of this paper is to highlight some of the key linkages between poverty, disability, nutrition and agricultural production. The paper also reports on some of the FAO's work on disability and disability rights and highlights 5 FAO projects / pilot models - ranging from mushroom production to blacksmithing - that target rural people living with disabilities. It would be useful for anyone with an interest in mainstreaming disability in development policy and practice
Meeting:
8th Session of the Ad Hoc Committee on a comprehensive and integral international convention on the protection and promotion of the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities
New York
August 2006
New York
August 2006
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Keywords
Global picture; disability; Cross-cutting; policy; Health; social determinants of health; Politics government and economics; economics; issues: malnutrition; Livelihoods; sector: agriculture; Development/ Humanitarian; rural development; Disability and social diversity; persons with disabilities; poverty
