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Non-farm Employment: A Key Challenge to Achieve Zero Hunger

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The rural non-farm economy (RNFE) includes all rural economic activity outside of agriculture. It contains small- and large-scale activities; self-employment; wage employment in commerce, manufacturing, and service; full-time, part-time, formal, informal, seasonal, and episodic non-farm production (Haggblade et al. 2002).

Non-farm employment includes agro-processing, commerce, charcoal production, transport services, manufacturing, repair services, wage work, firewood gathering, and seasonal migration. Agro-processing, generally, includes processing of shea nuts, groundnuts, rice, and cotton ginnery. Other activities are related to trading in foodstuff such as maize, beans, grains, and sand winning and selling handicraft products (Owusu et al. 2011). These activities could take place at home, in factories, or by itinerant traders.

Food insecurity is defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2014) as “a situation that exists when people...

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Michailidis, A., Lazaridou, D. (2020). Non-farm Employment: A Key Challenge to Achieve Zero Hunger. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69626-3_33-1

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