Rural communities worldwide are grappling with escalating challenges brought on by the climate crisis. As disasters become more frequent and severe, and environmental conditions grow harsher, the burden on these communities intensifies. However, it is women who are bearing the heaviest brunt of these impacts, including significant financial losses.

من مصايد الأسماك وتربية الأحياء المائية، حيث تشكل النساء نصف القوة العاملة، ولكنهن يعملن بشكل غير متناسب في الوظائف الأقل استقرارًا والأدنى أجراً؛ إلى زراعة الأراضي، حيث تعمل النساء في كثير من الأحيان في الحقول، لكن لا تملكها؛ إلى التعامي المستمر للاحتياجات الغذائية المحددة للنسا...

تشعر السيدة Céleste بالحماس إزاء تأدية دور أكبر في إدارة مزرعة الأسماك التي تملكها عائلتها.

Several low- and middle-income countries have demonstrated significant progresses in measuring and promoting women’s empowerment in agriculture

In the past ten years there have been tremendous efforts to develop methodologies and tools to measure women’s empowerment in the context of agriculture in a comprehensive and standardized way

Held on the sidelines of CSW66, representatives from the UN Rome-based Agencies and UN Women strongly recommitted to implementing interventions to carry out holistic and integrated interventions for rural women.

Panelists spoke openly against systemic practices that perpetuate gender inequalities and youth exclusion in climate dialogue.

66th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66): Side event by FAO, Mountain Partnership and Slow Food International

Young farmer Ruramiso Mashumba is spearheading change in Zimbabwe.

Government officials appreciated FAO’s work in reducing hunger and enhancing the agri-food system by empowering women and closing the gender group.

FAO sub-offices in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh provinces also celebrated the day with the staff taking a gender equality pledge and celebrating the day committing to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women & girls.

The Near East and North Africa (NENA) Regional Office celebrated International Women’s Day with its staff on March 8, 2020.

تحل هذا العام 2020 الذكرى السنوية الخامسة والعشرون على إعلان ومنهاج عمل بيجين، ويتيح فرصة غير مسبوقة لحشد الجهود العالمية لتحقيق المساواة بين الجنسين والإقرار بحقوق كل النساء والفتيات.

The comprehensive programme not only helps close the skills gap, but also plays a key role in extending knowledge to marginalized and disadvantaged populations.

تتضمن طرق معالجة الآثار السلبية لتغير المناخ على الأمن الغذائي إجراء مزيد من الأبحاث عن المنتجات الغذائية المعروفة وإيجاد طرق ابتكارية جديدة لاستخدامها. اليسار:© الفاو/ بيوس اكبي / اليمين

While rice cultivation thrives, villagers, especially women, earned a living along the rice production value chain, working as parboilers, millers and marketers.

من خلال رابطات مستخدمي المياه الموجودة بالفعل، يكثف المشروع أيضًا حملات التوعية العامة بشأن استخدام المياه الصالحة للشرب في الزراعة وتجهيز الأغذية وإعدادها.

As funding from Belgium will only cover the technical component, the main expected result of the project is that the 250 women organized in ten mothers’ clubs will be able to apply the agricultural techniques learned.

Women’s skills in farming as a business have improved, and so has their income, filling the current local production gap and demand for vegetables, which were mainly imported from neighbouring countries before.

Ms Mboya Ka, mother of five, who manages the Douli family cistern, explains how her life was before it was established.