Nouvelles
Les dernières nouvelles et infos sur l'égalité entre les sexes et l'autonomisation des femmesLa manifestation de New York met en évidence le rôle crucial des femmes rurales dans le Programme de développement pour l’après-2015
20/10/2014
Le Programme de développement pour l’après-2015 devrait accorder une priorité élevée aux femmes rurales ainsi qu’à leur rôle dans l'éradication de la pauvreté – voici le message clé exprimé par les intervenants lors de la manifestation extraordinaire tenu
Un cours d’apprentissage numérique place l’égalité des genres au cœur de la planification agricole
13/10/2014
Programme conjoint UE-FAO de réponse aux besoins en formation des professionnels de l’agriculture et de la sécurité alimentaire.
Land matters for women, indigenous peoples and a food secure world
30/09/2014
Securing land rights for vulnerable groups is a necessary step towards achieving greater food security and equality. Land carries social, cultural and economic value, but many find themselves without access to its benefits as a result of exclusionary prac
High-level meeting at UN headquarters to focus on women's right to land
22/09/2014
FAO Deputy Director-General for Knowledge, Maria Helena Semedo, will speak at United Nations Headquarters this week, during a high-level Ministerial breakfast meeting on gender equality in land ownership.
Bite-sized stories: determination and decisions in Gujarat and Lesotho
16/06/2014
A set of stories that illustrate some of the challenges that rural women farmers face every day, the determined and dynamic ways in which they decide to deal with them, and the ways in which their ingenuity and perseverance lead to greater food security,
La propriété foncière pour les femmes dans l'ouest des Balkans
14/05/2014
Un projet conjoint FAO-Banque mondiale veut faire changer les choses.
Renforcer la capacité d’agir des femmes dans l’agriculture
07/03/2014
Débat sur l’importance de l’égalité des sexes dans la sécurité alimentaire à l’occasion de la Journée internationale de la femme
Mini-études de cas: les agricultrices du Gujarat (Inde)
15/10/2013
Une série de mini-études de cas qui illustrent, à l’aide d’exemples concrets, la façon dont les agricultrices du Gujarat (Inde) ont trouvé des solutions à certains de leurs problèmes.
Les femmes, gardiennes principales de la diversité du bétail
05/11/2012
Une nouvelle étude prône l’autonomisation des femmes pour assurer le succès des efforts de conservation des races.
ONU Femmes, FAO, FIDA et PAM: la sécurité alimentaire mondiale passe par une autonomisation des femmes dans les zones rurales
27/09/2012
ONU Femmes et les trois organismes des Nations Unies en charge d'alimentation et d'agriculture basées à Rome ont lancé, aujourd'hui, un programme commun destiné à rendre plus autonomes les femmes rurales pauvres par des initiatives d'intégration économi
FAO, IFAD, WFP and UN Women launch a five-year multi-agency programme to empower rural women
13/07/2012
FAO's Director General José Graziano da Silva, the Executive Director of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet, the Executive Director of WFP, Ertharin Cousin, and representatives of IFAD participated in a high-level meeting at the WFP headquarters to discuss a 5-y
New gender and land profiles shed light on women’s rights in Central Asia
25/06/2012
The Gender and Land Rights database (GLRD) launches five new country profiles from Central Asia: Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, available in English and Russian.
G(irls)20 summit: closing the gender gap in agriculture
29/05/2012
The G(irls)20 Summit, taking place in Mexico in advance of the G20 meeting, brings together young women, aged 18-20, from G20 countries and the African Union to look at the G20 leaders’ agenda through the lens of the economic empowerment and inclusion of
International Women’s Day: Inspiring better futures for young rural women
13/03/2012
Creating better opportunities for young women in rural areas was the focus of the UN Rome-based agencies’ -- the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Food Programme (WFP) and FAO -- commemoration of International Women’s Day t
Journée mondiale de la femme: la politique de la FAO en matière d’égalité des sexes a des objectifs ambitieux
08/03/2012
Accroître les opportunités pour les femmes et les filles, un levier pour combattre faim et pauvreté
Gender gap imposes large costs on agriculture, economies and society
27/02/2012
"Rural women are active economic agents who could unleash major advancements in hunger eradication and development if they were able to participate equally with men in the agricultural economy,” said FAO Deputy Director-General Ann Tutwiler, speaking at t
Empowering Rural Women: CSW 2012’s Priority
27/02/2012
The 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the principal global policy-making body committed to gender equality and the advancement of women, meets 27 February- 9 March in New York and is this year dedicated to rural women’s empowerm
FAO launches website dedicated to closing the gender gap in agriculture
19/12/2011
FAO today launched the “Men and women in agriculture: closing the gap” website, dedicated to the organization’s latest research and knowledge to close the gender gap in agriculture to achieve food security for all.
The United Nations Rome-based agencies committed to supporting agricultural cooperatives
31/10/2011
The UN launched the International Year of Cooperatives 2012 (IYC) on October 31 at the General Assembly in New York. On this occasion, FAO, IFAD and WFP held a side event on the role of agricultural cooperatives in improving the lives of smallholder men a
Investing in gender equality at the heart of food security
24/10/2011
Gender equality was discussed as a prominent factor of food security at FAO’s celebration of World Food Day 2011 and throughout the 37th session of the United Nations Committee on Global Food Security (CFS), held at headquarters 17-22 October.