Sex-disaggregated data in agriculture and sustainable resource management

01/02/2019

This guidance document outlines the gender data gaps in agriculture. It also provides data sources to support the collection of sex-disaggregated data and indicators that can be used to measure the gender dimensions in agriculture. 48 pp.

Empowering rural women, powering agriculture: FAO's work on gender

06/12/2018

This brochure presents FAO’s sustained and consistent work towards gender equality and the empowerment of rural women, which are at the core of the Organization’s efforts to end hunger, malnutrition and rural poverty. It provides examples of FAO’s work in agriculture, forestry, fisheries and other sectors in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, and shows that enabling rural women to have the same access as men to resources, services and opportunities, translates into 25 pp.

The Gender and Rural Advisory Services Assessment Tool (GRAST)

06/12/2018

Gender-aware rural advisory services can help close the gender gap in agriculture by making information, new technologies, skills and knowledge more relevant and accessible to both women and men farmers, with positive effects on household incomes, food security and nutrition. The Gender and Rural Advisory Services Assessment Tool (GRAST) is designed to support providers of rural advisory services in their efforts to develop gender-sensitive programmes. 96 pp.

Empowering youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food systems: Rapid capacity assessment tool

04/12/2018

This rapid capacity assessment tool aims to help practitioners (such as government agencies, youth organizations, or development partners) to carry out a multi-stakeholder assessment of existing and needed capacities to engage and empower youth to carry out and benefit from responsible investment in agriculture and food systems. 30 pp.

SEWA-FAO Partnership: Promoting rural women’s empowerment in India

28/11/2018

Since 2016, FAO and the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) have collaborated to foster rural prosperity and promote rural women's empowerment in India. SEWA supports small-scale and marginalized women farmers and informal sector workers in India through its grassroots advocacy, social mobilization, and socio-economic services through a strong network of social solidarity partners. 2 pp.

Practical Guide for Improving Gender Equality in Territorial Issues (IGETI)

20/11/2018

This Guide promotes adapting a convergent and people-centred gender approach towards increasing and improving the provision of goods and services from agriculture, forestry and fisheries in a sustainable manner while reducing rural poverty in different priority areas of FAO’s work. This includes gender equality, territorial development, legal aspects and natural resources management. 66 pp.

Technical Guide 3 of Toolkit on Gender-sensitive social protection to combat rural poverty and hunger

15/11/2018

Composed of three Technical Guides, the Toolkit on Gender-sensitive social protection to combat rural poverty and hunger is intended to improve practitioners and development partners’ technical skills, and to integrate gender issues into the design, implementation and M&E of cash transfers and public works programmes. Technical Guide 3 of the Toolkit focuses on integrating gender into implementation and M&E. 52 pp.

Technical Guide 2 of Toolkit on Gender-sensitive social protection to combat rural poverty and hunger

14/11/2018

Composed of three Technical Guides, the Toolkit on Gender-sensitive social protection to combat rural poverty and hunger is intended to improve practitioners and development partners’ technical skills, and to integrate gender issues into the design, implementation and M&E of cash transfers and public works programmes. Technical Guide 2 of the Toolkit focuses on integrating gender into programme design. 92 pp.