Due to their local knowledge of sustainable natural resource management and practices at the household and community levels, women, in particular, play essential roles in responding to climate-related challenges and shocks.

During the last webinar in the “Community Engagement Days” series, speakers presented experiences, illustrated the challenges and solutions to collective action for community engagement approaches.

Turna’s success and proven track record in production and marketing has enabled it to survive the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

For the environment, mangrove forests are a crossroads for ocean, continental and instream ecosystems.

Following a highly participatory and interactive format, conversation focused on power dynamics and their impact on projects, project evaluation and community engagement.

With the money the women collectively generate, they are helping support their families to meet their basic needs such as food and healthcare.

The objective of the third webinar was to review the achievements, potential and challenges of community engagement for empowerment approaches in rural development and humanitarian interventions.

As a result of her life-long experiences, she knows very well the challenges women face in agriculture as she had to go through many of them.

FAO and the CGIAR GENDER Platform hosted a technical learning webinar focused on sharing tangible results of gender transformative approaches (GTAs) applied in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors.

Climate change means that extreme weather – intense rainfall at times and longer dry periods at others– results in either too much or too little water for the approximately 90 percent of Senegalese farmers who practice rain-fed agriculture.

Women play a key role in processing traditional dairy products, and there is a high local demand, but there is little recognition for the women’s work behind it.

“I feel independent”, declared one of the women entrepreneurs who participated in the Yemen’s project.

Mountain women in Kyrgyzstan are collaborating with Haitian-Italian fashion designer Stella Jean to bring their traditional felt designs to the international stage.

On International Women's Day, we must take the opportunity to bring awareness to the profound contributions rural women make to society, as well as the ways in which they are underrepresented and hindered.

In a remote Venezuelan farming town, Eliana and her family depend on their garden for food and income through droughts, an economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. 

For the women, one of the most important parts of the project is the sheep-rearing training groups, formed by the HFLS project and run by the women themselves.

The project supports 270 women's cooperatives, associations and informal groups through capacity building on gender equality and several soft skills like communication, negotiation, and ethics.

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science we celebrate indigenous women and their knowledge, and we would like to highlight some indigenous women scientists and their achievements.

She had started her business with USD 68 of savings, but less than two months later, the young entrepreneur raked in a hefty profit.

Patricia started farming to help cover her family’s expenses because her teaching salary was not sufficient.