This article highlights the critical role of rural women in Pakistan’s development and underscores the importance of empowering them through education, vocational training, and inclusion in socio-economic activities. It discusses various government and non-government initiatives aimed at enhancing women’s access to healthcare, financial services, and skill-building opportunities. The piece emphasizes that...

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, CIDSE and the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) from Coventry University launch a podcast mini-series of 3 episodes exploring feminist agroecology.  As part of its advocacy and storytelling around agroecology, CIDSE has highlighted how its social and cultural dimension, including a feminist...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

This paper examines the relationship between the diffusion of drip irrigation technology, state subsidy programs to encourage its adoption by farmers, and gendered labor dynamics. Drip irrigation is promoted globally as a water conserving agricultural innovation that enhances water-use and productive efficiency by increasing yields with less water, while freeing...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

Partnerships between public extension services and private extension service providers (PESPs) complement public systems, like market access and sustainable development, and support farmers with a broader skillset. This report outlines ten lessons from 23 IFAD-supported projects that worked with PESPs to support efficient, inclusive and sustainable pluralistic extension systems. These lessons...

This rapid gender analysis (RGA) explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender equality and food security in the Arab region, focusing on Iraq and the Sudan as case studies. This RGA is a collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food...

Rural women are limited by labor. They have less access than men to the labor they need to power their farms, constraining their productivity, income, and resilience and driving the gender gap in agricultural output. Financial service providers have a role to play by designing and delivering responsive solutions that...

It is only recently, at age 36, that Saoudé Garba has felt in charge of her own life. Born in the village of Danje in southern Niger, she was married early to one of the three chiefs of the village. She had her first child at the age of 15,...

Este folleto es producido en el marco del proyecto +Algodón y presenta un breve resumen de esta iniciativa de cooperación sur-sur trilateral llevada a cabo desde el 2013 en conjunto por la FAO, Agencia Brasileña de Cooperación del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (ABC/MRE ) y 7 países socios: Argentina, Bolivia,...

Besides biological need like food, water and sex. There are also some social needs of man. He wants Role of rural women, over of men is more influenced with different economic, social, cultural and ecological factors. Rural women are considered as a noticeable potential in the community either in the...

El desarrollo de sistemas alimentarios sostenibles es un elemento clave de la ​Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible. Este curso analiza por qué es fundamental eliminar las desigualdades de género para lograr las transformaciones necesarias.​ Propone utilizar el Marco de la FAO de cadenas de valor sensibles al género como...

Organic Without Boundaries is a blog by IFOAM – Organics International.Uncover interesting stories about organic agriculture and the people working to build a more sustainable world.

In its 2011 flagship publication, The State of Food and Agriculture: Women in Agriculture, the FAO made the case that women’s unequal access to resources and opportunities not only holds them back but is a determining factor in the underperformance of the agriculture sector in many countries. More than a...

Care responsibilities are a factor that deepens inequalities for gender reasons in terms of productive work, understood as the performed tasks that pursues the accumulation of capital or the production of an income or an added value (United Nations Women [UN Women], 2020). The probability that women participate in the...

Turdumatova Zhazgul is a proud member of the Ishker KG cooperative, an initiative co-founded by eight remarkable women, herself included. Thanks to her involvement with the cooperative, she had the invaluable opportunity to partake in specialized training programs, knowledge that she expertly applied to enhance her agricultural endeavors. The newfound...

Les zones urbaines sahéliennes sont confrontées au triple fardeau de la malnutrition avec la persistance de la dénutrition, de carences multiples et la progression du surpoids et des pathologies associées. Le projet Meriem (Mobiliser les entreprises sahéliennes pour les réponses innovantes à grande échelle contre la malnutrition, 2018-2023), soutenu par l’Agence...

Family farming is fundamental to guaranteeing food security throughout the world and the practitioners of this activity are the target of many obstacles to their own development, especially women. Most women do not have legal ownership of the land they use for agriculture,and generally, the land is owned by their...

This article describes how rural women in Nigeria are enhancing their economic independence and resilience by forming self-managed savings and credit groups known as affinity groups. These groups enable women to pool their savings, provide each other with low-interest loans, and make joint decisions on financial matters. The initiative has...