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Последние новости и информация в отношении гендерного равенства и расширения прав и возможностей женщинLand 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,
Право собственности на землю пока не гарантировано женщинам Западных Балкан
14/05/2014
Цель совместного проекта ФАО и Всемирного Банка - изменить ситуацию посредством сбора данных и образования.
Расширение возможностей женщин в сельском хозяйстве
07/03/2014
На мероприятии ФАО по случаю Международного женского дня подчеркнули роль гендерного равенства в борьбе с голодом
Bite-sized stories: how rural women farmers are solving problems in Gujarat, India
15/10/2013
A set of stories that illustrate, through real life examples, how rural women farmers in Gujarat, India found solutions to some of the challenges they faced.
Women are main guardians of crucial livestock diversity
05/11/2012
New study argues that to succeed, breed conservation efforts must empower women.
UN Women, FAO, IFAD and WFP: empowerment of women in rural areas is pre-requisite for global food security
27/09/2012
UN Women and the three Rome-based United Nations agencies working on food and agriculture today launched a joint programme to empower poor rural women through economic integration and food security initiatives.
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
International Women’s Day: FAO gender policy aims high
08/03/2012
Better opportunities for women and girls means leverage in fight against hunger.
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.
Lead expert group paves way for improved global institutional and policy framework for rural women’s economic empowerment
23/09/2011
FAO, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Food Programme (WFP) and UN Women convened an Expert Group Meeting from the 20-23 September 2011 in Accra, Ghana to identify strategies and recommendations to enhance the economic
Forest ownership rights can improve peoples’ livelihoods
13/07/2011
Reforming forest tenure systems and securing forest ownership rights can significantly improve peoples’ livelihoods and enable them to gain income from forest products, said FAO in a newly published guide, Reforming Forest Tenure.