Success stories
FAO's work on gender equality and women's empowerment at country levelEnabling women to benefit more equally from agrifood value chains
14/09/2017
On average, women make up about 50 percent of the agricultural labour force in sub-Saharan Africa. However, they are often disadvantaged in their access to productive resources, markets and market information, financial services, technology, training, and
Windows of opportunity: Caisses de Résilience for the women and men of the Sahel
14/09/2017
“It is up to us, the women, to find money to feed the family at this time of the year,” explains Sanihan, who lives in the village of Baramadougou, in Mali, with thirteen other members of her family.
Rural women talk about gender, climate change and climate variability in Uruguay
16/08/2017
The workshop aimed to raise awareness of the importance of management for adaptation and the sustainable use of natural resources. It also sought to facilitate the critical analysis of women´s role in decision-making.
Emergency goat distribution targets women and most vulnerable in northeastern Nigeria
17/07/2017
Around 900 vulnerable women, including from women headed households, are being assisted through an FAO initiative to improve household nutrition and rebuild livelihoods in vulnerable communities.
Milk money: supporting Lebanon’s women dairy processors
04/07/2017
Across rural Lebanon, FAO is helping women dairy producers and processors to improve standards, diversify output and increase income.
Empowering South Sudanese refugees and host communities
03/07/2017
There are nearly 75 000 South Sudanese refugees registered in the provinces of Ituri and Haut-Uélé in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Oyster mushroom cultivation for Lao farmers
30/05/2017
Ms Vieng says she can now call herself a mushroom farmer. Smiling, she holds up one of the bags she learned to prepare during her training on mushroom cultivation, a flush of mushrooms growing from it.
FAO CASH+ programme boosts the livelihoods of women and vulnerable households in Mali
17/05/2017
An FAO programme is helping 750 vulnerable households across 36 villages in the Kayes region of Mali. The 18-month programme combines unconditional cash transfers with in-kind livestock inputs such as goats and animal feed.
The garden toothbrush: smiles for men and women farmers in northern Nigeria
16/05/2017
Growing traditional vegetables like the African eggplant, or gorongo, is helping a group of farmers who were displaced by Boko Haram to regain and improve their livelihoods, food security, and nutrition — along with their smiles.
Rural women in Afghanistan: milk farmers, mushroom producers — and more
03/05/2017
A set of three videos explores how FAO projects in rural Afghanistan are helping rural farmers — and women in particular — to help themselves.
Rebuilding farming livelihoods for the men and women of Pakistan’s FATA
02/05/2017
Gul Baro Bibi looks at her vegetable produce with relief. Her face glows with a sense of achievement as she watches her okra and bottle gourd ready to be harvested.
Improving the dairy value chain in Yemen, and empowering women along the way
20/03/2017
For 25-year-old Fathia Moafaa, every day is a struggle to make ends meet.
Cash and productive transfers for women in the Sahel
17/03/2017
Nejiha is a beneficiary of FAO's "Productive Transfers / CASH +" project in the wilaya of Gorgol, in southern Mauritania. The project, funded by Finland, aims to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable populations in Mauritania and Mali.
In South Sudan: empowering women through strengthened livelihoods
16/03/2017
“It is a terrifying reality that women in South Sudan have little to no rights,” explains Abdal Monium Osman, FAO Head of Programmes in South Sudan.
Making change in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
06/03/2017
A look at FAO’s work with rural men and women farmers in a remote and rugged region of Bangladesh.
Improving livelihoods of indigenous women in Nicaragua
14/02/2017
The indigenous Mayangna women of the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve in northern Nicaragua face poverty, isolation, domestic violence and triple discrimination based on their gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic situation.
Building resilience to climate change in Laos
10/02/2017
FAO provides disaster risk reduction and management training to Laotian men and women farmers.
FAO and UN Women: partnering for rural women and men in Pakistan
14/12/2016
In 2010, severe flooding killed nearly 2 000 people in Pakistan and wiped out 1.6 million homes. Whole villages were submerged, and families lost not only their homes, but also their livestock and standing crops.
Learning to be prepared: food preservation training for disaster-prone communities in Vanuatu
08/12/2016
With El Niño following hard on the heels of Tropical Cyclone Pam in March 2015, subsistence farmer Ruta Bule faced a difficult recovery. “Cyclone Pam came and that was bad,” she explained. “The storm spoiled our gardens. But then El Niño came and that was
“Now there is a difference”: a look at climate change adaptation in Uganda
15/11/2016
A new video, released by FAO on the occasion of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP22), illustrates how men and women in rural Uganda are making climate change adaptation work for them.