Gender

Success stories

FAO's work on gender equality and women's empowerment at country level
21/08/2018
New skills, new hope: How a FAO Farmer Field School in Torit, South Sudan became a turning point for an elderly widow.
15/08/2018
Displaced shouldn’t mean dismissed. In Iraq, FAO’s cash-based programmes support vulnerable men, women and families affected by conflict.
03/08/2018
Thanks to a grant from the Swedish government, an ingenious FAO project, done in conjunction with Guatemala’s agriculture ministry, changed everything.
17/07/2018
School gardening takes root in Kenyan refugee settlement.
11/07/2018
Empowering rural women like Edwina Mukalay to make change in their communities.
09/07/2018
The SOFIA highlights the country’s example by adapting the Voluntary Guidelines for the Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) in the legal and regulatory framework, by incorporating the situation experienced by Costa Rican fisherwomen and fishe
20/06/2018
Farmers, families, schools work together to boost child nutrition.
05/06/2018
Amiat initially migrated in the hopes of providing her family with enough income. Now, she has joined a poultry cooperative that allows her to support her family and remain in her home village.
29/05/2018
Investing in female entrepreneurs improves livelihoods in Bangladesh.
28/05/2018
The community has also been very active and appreciative of Charity’s work. Local women are engaging now, more than ever, in forest and farming activities.
22/05/2018
The workshop afforded key stakeholders an opportunity to challenge assumptions about what gender means and to exchange knowledge on how to link gender and climate change issues in practice.
15/05/2018
Since 2015, some 15,000 farmers have been joining forces to form groups and practice collective marketing.
02/05/2018
“I was motivated to fish because I saw fishermen making more money than I was. One day I decided to try out the net,” says Valeria Maniraguha, a 38-year-old mother of four children who started fishing in 2010.
11/04/2018
After Aisa ya Maida lost her husband during an attack on her home in Magumeri, a Local Government Authority (LGA) in Nigeria's Borno State, she fled to Konduga, a neighbouring LGA, with her seven children.
04/04/2018
With one failed rainy season after another, Hany Abdullahi Aaden was increasingly worried about the survival of her livestock.
27/03/2018
How Guatemalan refugees found peace and prosperity through farming
22/03/2018
In Ethiopia’s southeast region, livestock are essential for survival. “We were pure herders. We used to follow the water and grass,” said Mahabo Hassen, a female livestock owner from the outskirts of Warder, in Ethiopia’s Somali Region.
21/03/2018
In Kenya, FAO and the European Union are supporting small-scale women farmers to grow more food and earn more from their crops by adopting conservation agriculture (CA), and by linking the farmers to markets.
14/03/2018
Women and children are among those most vulnerable to food insecurity and malnutrition. This is no different in Mozambique where, according to the FAO Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition, 35% of the population is food insecure.
08/03/2018
The story of Hanen Talbi, Sonia Mhamdi and Imen Chelbi.