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La sección titulada “Recursos” contiene publicaciones y materiales multimedia archivados que guardan relación con cuestiones generales en el ámbito de la agricultura familiar.

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Sistema de índices de riesgos multidimensionales: Aplicación práctica a la prevención y anticipación de riesgos con enfoque de género

En esta nota de política se aborda la experiencia sobre el diseño e implementación piloto de un Sistema de Índices de Riesgos Multidimensionales con enfoque de género, con el objetivo de: i) fortalecer la resiliencia comunitaria, ii) mejorar los sistemas de alerta temprana y iii) garantizar la protección y autonomía...
Honduras
2025 - Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD)

Libro
Climate-smart agriculture profile for Balochistan, Pakistan

This document provides general and technical information about the province of Balochistan, focusing on its geography, political context, economic relevance of agriculture, people, agriculture, and livelihoods. It also discusses the role of women and youth in agriculture, food security, nutrition, health, agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and agroecological zones.The...
Pakistan
2025 - FAO

Manual
Curso de meliponicultura para mulheres

Este manual foi desenvolvido no contexto do curso “Meliponicultura para mulheres”, realizado em fevereiro de 2025 no município de Paragominas, no estado do Pará, Brasil. Voltada para agricultoras de comunidades tradicionais, a publicação oferece informações práticas e científicas sobre a criação de abelhas sem ferrão (meliponicultura), com o objetivo de...
2025 - Organização das Nações Unidas para a Alimentação e a Agricultura (FAO)

Vídeo
Mujeres rurales, un pilar fundamental para la seguridad alimentaria y el desarrollo rural de Bolivia

La agricultura es una de las actividades económicas más importantes de Bolivia, representando el 12% del PIB del país. Sin embargo, la productividad agrícola es una de las más bajas de América del Sur. En el BID trabajamos para potenciar el sector agropecuario de Bolivia y, a su vez, empoderar...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2025 - Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)

Libro
La situación de las mujeres en los sistemas agroalimentarios

Un enfoque regional para América Latina y el Caribe
Este informe aborda la situación de las mujeres en los sistemas agroalimentarios de América Latina y el Caribe, destacando su rol fundamental y los desafíos que enfrentan en términos de igualdad de género, acceso a recursos y oportunidades laborales. Las mujeres representan una parte significativa de la fuerza laboral en...
2025 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Estudio de caso
ACCELERATING GENDER EQUALITY THROUGH SOCIAL PROTECTION

The World Bank’s Gender Strategy (2024-2030) aims to tackle both formal and informal barriers to gender inequality, including power imbalances that often affect women and girls disproportionally. To achieve enduring gender equality, there must be collective action to influence transformative changes in laws, policies, and programming grounded in a deeper...
2025 - World Bank Group

Artículo de blog
India: supporting rural women in their economic activity

This article describes how Action Education is empowering rural women in India, particularly in Assam and Odisha, through education, vocational training, and financial inclusion. In Assam, 20 women entrepreneurs formed a cooperative to produce traditional textiles, improving their incomes and gaining official recognition. Individual success stories, like that of Rina,...
2025 - Action Education

Artículo de blog
Gender norms and women’s economic empowerment in South Sudan’s fragile contexts

South Sudan, a nation emerging from decades of conflict, faces significant challenges in rebuilding its economy and society. Women have been disproportionately affected, facing displacement, poverty, and limited opportunities. Despite their crucial role in the agricultural sector, women’s participation and leadership are hindered by deep-rooted gender norms. As the World...
2025 - Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF)

Artículo de blog
Assessing Fish Loss and Waste Through a Gender-Responsive Lens

In December 2024, a leading-edge study by WorldFish and partners began uncovering how gender dynamics influence fish loss and waste in fisheries value chains.  Researchers launched the study in Mombasa, Kenya, bringing together global and local institutions to address an often-overlooked challenge in fisheries—fish loss and waste (FLW). At the...
2025 - WorldFish (WF)

Artículo de blog
Empowering Samkhuy Village through Community-Led Change and Gender-Inclusive Leadership

Samkhuy Community Fisheries (CFi), located along the Sekong River in Stung Treng Province, Cambodia, has 242 members, including 134 women. Since its establishment in 2015, the village has been transformed through sustainable livelihoods and natural resource management. A significant shift towards gender-inclusive leadership with five out of seven committee members...
Cambodia
2025 - WorldFish (WF)

Artículo
Indigenous women researchers speak their knowledge in an academic voice

The FAO, in partnership with Thompson Rivers University (TRU), is amplifying the voices of Indigenous women researchers through academic platforms, recognizing them as vital knowledge holders in agri-food systems, biodiversity conservation, and climate action. Indigenous women, often invisible in data and decision-making, play a crucial role as seed keepers, food...
2025 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Artículo
Building Resiliency in Community Development: The Experiences of Women in Rural Communities in Ghana

In Ghana, women face challenges such as poverty, illiteracy, restricted legal rights, and entrenched gender roles, impeding their empowerment. Despite these barriers, they exhibit remarkable resilience, often through active engagement in community development initiatives. Previous studies highlight the importance of collective solidarity and intergenerational support in fostering resilience among Ghanaian...
2025

Artículo
Challenges to and opportunities for women’s empowerment in building climate resilient communities in rural Ghana

Supporting women farmers and micro-entrepreneurs in Northwestern Ghana diversifies income sources and enhances their economic resilience.
The Upper West Region of Ghana experiences flooding and prolonged dry spells every year, which contributes to declining agriculture productivity. Climate change is not only reshaping ecosystems and economies but also transforming gender roles and power relations within rural communities. The ongoing persistent changes influence how women in particular gain...
2025 - International Water Management Institute

Artículo
Intersectionality in gender inequality among women: Adopting policies to minimise unpaid care burden on rural women in north-western Ghana

Though poverty appears feminised in sub-Saharan Africa, rural women are more susceptible to poverty and suppression compared to women in urban areas. State care policies are not sufficient to ameliorate the conditions vulnerable women are confronted with; occasioned by intersectionalities with gender. It is against this backdrop that this study...
2025

Artículo de blog
Rising Together | The Women Caficultora Network is Accelerating Change

In the heart of Guatemala’s Antigua coffee growing region, a group of determined women are cultivating more than just coffee, they’re collectively cultivating a change in the coffee industry. The Women Caficultora Network is not only a group of coffee producers, but a group of women that showcase powerful movements...
2025

Documento de trabajo
A synthesis of changes in women’s empowerment in two portfolios of agricultural and livestock development projects

The intrinsic and instrumental value of gender equality and women’s empowerment isrecognized by Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5. Evidence on positive changes towomen’s empowerment in agriculture and livestock interventions is expanding but isstill relatively limited. Portfolios of projects focused on women’s empowerment throughagriculture and livestock interventions can provide key insights...
2025

Artículo de blog
Challenging Gender Discriminatory Norms, Practices, and Beliefs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Socially and culturally constructed gender norms are widely recognized as a major obstacle for women and other underrepresented groups in achieving social and economic empowerment and participating in political processes. The pressures of domestic and caregiving responsibilities, along with restrictive norms that suppress the voices, agency, mobility, and earning potential...
2025 - International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Artículo de blog
Empowering women in livestock: addressing gender barriers in Uganda’s pig sector

Livestock is a key sector in Uganda, contributing approximately 4.3% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Nearly 60% of households depend on livestock for their livelihoods, with women and youth playing crucial roles in livestock production. However, restrictive social and gender norms limit their ability to fully benefit from...
2025

Artículo de blog
Rural women must be recognised for their contribution

Gender discrimination in rural areas across Bangladesh continues to be a formidable barrier to both social and economic development, particularly in the agricultural sector. Despite their critical roles in farming, processing, and post-harvest activities, rural women face entrenched inequalities in wages, opportunities, and recognition. As Shahnaz Begum, a farmer from...
2025

Artículo de blog
We must unlock rural women’s potential – here are 3 places to start

In an age of global instability, women and girls hold the key to stability in rural areas. But deep-rooted discrimination prevents them from building better futures for themselves, their households and their communities. Today, global dynamics are further eroding their rights. Rural women produce much of the world’s food but own...
2025 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
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