Enabling women to benefit more equally from agrifood value chains

22/02/2016

This FMM project aims to provide technical assistance and policy support to address the barriers that limit rural women’s access to and benefits from local, national and global markets. 2 pp, English and French.

The Implications of Social Farming for Rural Poverty Reduction: Technical Workshop

18/12/2015

This report summarizes the workshop on The Implications of Social Farming for Rural Poverty Reduction, which explored the possible contribution of social farming to rural poverty reduction through rural women’s economic empowerment, decent rural employment creation and social protection. 40 pp.

A Glance at Gender: Newsletter for the Regional Office for Africa (June – July 2015)

03/12/2015

This edition highlights women farmers' access to and use of technology and innovation, improved seeds and fertilizers, and extension and financial services. It also discusses FAO's role in both supporting and bridging the gender gap in the agriculture value chain. 2 pp.

Understanding the Role of Social Protection in Advancing Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment: Towards Sustainable Poverty Reduction

26/11/2015

This technical note proposes a framework for understanding the contribution of social protection to rural women’s empowerment, particularly how different social protection schemes contribute to this goal and what gaps need to be addressed by other rural services and livelihood interventions. 48 pp.

Gender and Land Statistics: Recent developments in FAO’s Gender and Land Rights Database

24/11/2015

Current efforts to streamline and compile international statistics on gender and land in a unified framework provide the entry point for expanded statistical content in the Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD). This Technical Note describes the statistics of the GLRD in detail. 35 pp.

Enhancing the potential of family farming for poverty reduction and food security through gender-sensitive rural advisory services

18/11/2015

This paper looks at the gender-differentiated barriers in access to rural advisory services (RAS) and the challenges of effectively targeting women family farmers when delivering these services. It provides examples of good practices in responding to women farmers’ specific requirements in supporting their economic empowerment, as well as recommendations for demand-driven, gender-sensitive RAS for improved food security and poverty reduction. 76 pp.

Moving Forward on Choosing a Standard Operational Indicator of Women’s Dietary Diversity

13/10/2015

Dietary diversity is crucial for vulnerable groups, in particular for women of reproductive age (WRA). Can dietary diversity be measured and used as a simple population-level proxy indicator collected via large-scale surveys to reflect the micronutrient adequacy of WRA’s diets? In 2005-2010, results from the Women’s Dietary Diversity Project (WDDP) on the relationship between food group diversity and micronutrient adequacy of the diets of WRA did not lead to the development of 226 pp.

Gender in Climate-Smart Agriculture: Module 18 for the Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook

12/10/2015

This latest module of the Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook provides a comprehensive menu of practical tools and guidance for integrating gender in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of projects and investments in climate-smart agriculture (CSA). 96 pp.