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.

От рыбного хозяйства и аквакультуры, где женщины составляют половину рабочей силы, но непропорционально заняты на наименее стабильных и низкооплачиваемых работах, до земледелия, где они зачастую обрабатыват поля, но не владеют ими; и до постоянного пренебрежения особыми потребностями в пит...

Селеста в восторге от возможности сыграть более активную роль в управлении рыбоводческим хозяйством своей семьи.

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.

В 2020 году отмечается 25-летняя годовщина принятия Пекинской декларации и Платформы действий, что является беспрецедентной возможностью для мобилизации в глобальном масштабе действий.

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

Одним из способов преодоления негативных последствий изменения климата для продовольственной безопасности является дальнейшее изучение распространенных продуктов питания и поиск новаторских путей их использования.

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

Через уже созданные объединения водопользователей проект также усиливает кампании по общественному информированию о безопасном использовании воды в сельском хозяйстве, переработке продовольствия и приготовлении пищи.

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.