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Guidelines for the improvement of statistics on women(FAO, 1996)
A practical guide to amending national agricultural survey programmes in order to improve the collection and dissemination of adequate gender-disaggregated data. |
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Proceedings from AGROTEC/FAO workshop: Gender and agricultural engineering(FAO, 1996)
The objective of the workshop was to increase attention to women as important actors in the field of agricultural engineering. It was organized jointly with AGROTEC, a programme based in Zimbabwe that addressed gender issues in its work on smallholder agricultural technologies. |
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Empowering Zambian rural women through small farmer groupsJ. Rouse (FAO, 1996)
The focus of this research is to document the impact of the FAO People's Participation Programme (PPP), which began in Zambia in 1983. The programme has helped to increase the effectiveness of many rural services and development initiatives by forming solid groups in which women are actively participating. |
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The gender dimension in rural cooperatives(FAO, 1996)
As breeding grounds for democracy and participation, cooperatives can be used to empower women by enhancing and upgrading their specific knowledge and capacities. They also play an important role in teaching methods of group decision-taking, and developing trust and self-assurance. |
Other FAO publications on Gender
Other FAO regional publications on Gender: Africa, Asia and the Pacific,
Latin America and the Caribbean
