Women constitute a substantial proportion of the agricultural workforce; yet they quite often face significant barriers to accessing information, resources and technology that could improve their farming practices and enhance productivity and farm income. This good practice note examine the challenges that women farmers face, as well as how innovative...

This competition was developed by Copa-Cogeca to shed a light on the hundreds of innovative projects conducted every year all over Europe by Women farmers. In 2023 it will particularly showcase the innovative and novel solutions implemented by women that are supporting all the three pillars of sustainability: economic, environmental...

Los sistemas agroalimentarios, además de ser una importante fuente de empleo para las mujeres en el mundo, en muchos países constituyen una fuente de sustento más importante para estas que para los hombres. Así pues, empoderar a las mujeres y cerrar la brecha de género en los sistemas agroalimentarios mejora...

FAO ha presentado un reporte global sobre la situación de las mujeres en los sistemas agroalimentarios, el cual plantea revisa y analiza las oportunidades y limitaciones de las mujeres en los procesos económicos y sociales, al mismo tiempo que hace un balance y evalúa el progreso realizado para cerrar una...

This work was part of the CGIAR Gender Platform and the CGIAR Initiative on Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia and North Africa.  A groundbreaking new research strategy identifies priorities to advance gender equality in agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for adapting and building resilience to climate change.   The newly...

The documentary film about the steadfastness of Palestinian women farmers in  Gaza/Palestine reflects the continued struggle of urban and peri-urban women agripreneurs to restore food sovereignty and face challenges. These activities of the Urban Women Agripreneurs Forum (UWAF) come as an extension of the partnership project between the Gaza Urban...

The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest showcases the latest contents uploaded in the FFKP to provide its readers with relevant and up to date information on family farming main themes such as agroecology, smallscale fisheries, pastoralism, indigenous people, and more.

Conventional gender-sensitive methodologies that tend to focus on treating the symptoms of gender discrimination, such as women’s unequal access to resources and benefits, without addressing the structural determinants of gender inequality, have repeatedly failed to achieve long-standing and transformative impacts. Discriminatory gender norms and roles, unequal power relations and social structures...

In line with its transparency and monitoring requirements, the European Commission launched today an online dashboard presenting the targets set at national level by each Member State in its approved CAP Strategic Plan, as well targets at EU level. By exploring the interactive dashboard, users can find out for example about the...

Para conmemorar el Día Internacional de la Mujer, celebrado el 8 de marzo, la Red Latinoamericana de Mujeres Algodoneras y el proyecto +Algodón del Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasil-FAO promueven el evento virtual Mujeres del algodón: empoderamiento económico para cadenas de valor con enfoque de género trasformador, el día 24 de marzo (viernes),...

When Suzana Hamimu Kaleju began working as a fish processor 30 years ago in the port of Kigoma, she used to lay the sprat, a type of herring, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika before selling her dried fish in local and regional markets. They would get dusty or sandy so...

Tengo 62 años y sigo trabajando en la artesanía. Este es nuestro arte”, se presenta la agricultora y artesana María Posiva, del Municipio de San Antonio de Lomerío, en Bolivia. Desde los 10 años aprendió el oficio del hilado con su abuela y el algodón está presente en su historia...

La artesana paraguaya María del Carmen, 38 años, cree en el empoderamiento de las mujeres rurales por medio de la producción y la comercialización del algodón, además de generar una importante fuente de trabajo e ingreso a las familias que se dedican a la agricultura primaria o de pequeña escala. Su...

Declaración de Santo Domingo: Juntos hacia una Iberoamérica justa y Sostenible, aprobada durante la XXVIII Cumbre Iberoamericana de Jefas y Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno realizada el 25 de marzo de 2023. Las Jefas y los Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de los países iberoamericanos, reunidos el 25 de...

El presente documento corresponde al Programa de Acción de la República Dominicana, aprobado durante la XXVIII Cumbre Iberoamericana de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno, 25 de marzo de 2023, bajo el lema «Juntos hacia una Iberoamérica justa y Sostenible». Más información sobre la Cumbre en: https://www.fao.org/partnerships/parliamentary-alliances/news/news-article/es/c/1636426/ 

The Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) is a partnership aimed at strengthening forest and farm producer organisations. A cross-cutting goal of FFF is to support the empowerment and entrepreneurship of women forest and farm producers. Women’s organisations around the world are trailblazing transformative approaches to economic empowerment and livelihood improvement. One such organisation is...

El presente curso es desarrollado en el marco del, proyecto de cooperación sur-sur trilateral +Algodón, implementado conjuntamente por el Gobierno de Brasil por medio de la Agencia Brasileña de Cooperación del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (ABC/MRE), la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y...

Access to clean and safe water is a prerequisite to meeting basic human rights. Water is essential for all productive activities in Egypt in the agricultural sector and related sectors, including industry, trade and energy generation. Agriculture is a key sector in the Egyptian economy, contributing 11.3 percent to the...

Inclusive agribusiness development has been increasingly prioritized by countries and development organizations as a key driver of economic growth, rural transformation and shared prosperity. In Africa, several high-level continental African Union policies and strategies feature this objective, including the Maputo Declaration, the Malabo Declaration, the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme,...

Women are working to transform fisheries and aquaculture in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. International Women’s Day 2023 is an opportunity to reflect on the contribution of women to the sector, while recognizing that more still needs to be done to acknowledge and advance their key role in the value chain. FAO...