El equipo de género de la Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe ha considerado la necesidad de fortalecer las capacidades técnicas de gobiernos, sociedad civil e instituciones responsables de políticas, planes y programas de protección social para la integración efectiva del enfoque de género en...

Gender equality is a key to eliminating poverty and hunger, as it has been demonstrated by the FAO throughout its research worldwide. As part of the FAO efforts on generating evidence and knowledge, and in compliance with the FAO Policy on Gender Equality, the purpose of the Country Gender Assessment...

Las mujeres del ámbito rural tienen un rol importante en la producción agrícola y la seguridad alimentaria. Sin embargo, aún persisten importantes desigualdades, dicen desde el Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural (Rimisp), una organización con sede en México que trabaja para el desarrollo rural de América Latina.

Rural women are torchbearers for social, economic and environment transformation for the ‘New India’. In India, Agriculture employs about 80 percent of rural women. Empowering and mainstreaming rural women workforce in agriculture can bring paradigm shift towards economic growth. It will enhance food and nutrition security and alleviate poverty and...

In Nigeria, agriculture is responsible for roughly a quarter of the gross domestic product, the second-highest contributor in the country. Although the Nigerian government has reaffirmed its commitment to allocate 10% of its annual budget to agriculture as a signatory to the Maputo Declaration, it has not allocated more than...

"Mujeres con derecho a la tierra y el territorio" es una serie de 16 capítulos en español y quechua, que busca empoderar a las mujeres indígenas en el ejercicio de sus derechos. Es una producción de la Asociación Servicios Educativos Rurales - SER, con el apoyo de Pan para el...

Sem recursos e “no meio do mato”, a fome assolava a vida de muitas famílias no assentamento Monjolinho, em Anastácio, na região oeste do estado. Isso em meados da década de 80, quando mulheres andavam cerca de 15 km para buscar leite para as crianças. E foi na dificuldade que as...

This article narrates the story of Movai Matombo, a 57-year-old woman smallholder farmer who began practicing agroecology in 2010. Matombo resides in the Shashe region of Mashava, Masvingo province, Zimbabwe, where she learnt about agroecology farming, a technique that produces a high yield while conserving the soil and the environment....

In Yemen, millions of children—particularly girls—remain out of school due to conflict, poverty, and cultural barriers such as early marriage and the lack of female teachers. Eman, a rural female teacher in AlDhale’e Governorate, exemplifies the critical role women educators play in reversing this trend. Beyond teaching, Eman engages in...

Los productores familiares son importantes elaboradores de alimentos artesanales, pero tienen problemas en su comercialización, por lo que surge la necesidad de mejorar dicho proceso con estrategias apropiadas. Estudios previos del equipo de la Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto en la región, identificaron problemas en aspectos como calidad e inocuidad,...

This publication presents ten scalable intercultural collaboration experiences that demonstrate the importance, efficiency and effectiveness of working hand in hand with men, women and youth of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean in the search for practical solutions developed from the synergy between ancestral knowledge and...

Since the early 1980s, research and policy interest in rural women’s livelihoods and food security in Africa has risen and waned in tandem with significant developments in African economies and shifts in economic policy responses to recurring crises. This chapter draws on an important body of work on rural women...

Malnutrition is a major global challenge, not least in the parts of the world that also suffer from poverty. At the same time, the climate crisis and other environmental changes disproportionately affect people in the Global South. Scaling up agroforestry can contribute to food and nutrition security, while contributing to...

"Mujeres con derecho a la tierra y el territorio" es una serie de 16 capítulos en español y quechua, que busca empoderar a las mujeres indígenas en el ejercicio de sus derechos. Es una producción de la Asociación Servicios Educativos Rurales - SER, con el apoyo de Pan para el...

The area of Bamyan in central Afghanistan is located right in the middle of what was known as the Silk Road and used to be a strategic resting point for travellers and merchants. It was meeting point of cultures and once a hub of Buddhism, but today it is more...

An agroecology project from Tanzania found significant improvements in the diversity of children’s diets and food security for households after farmers learned about sustainable crop-growing methods, gender equity, nutrition and climate change from peer mentors. The investigator of the project said, “We found that this intervention approach of combining agroecology...

Cozinhando Agendas Políticas – Guia Feminista Sobre o Direito à Alimentação e à Nutrição das Mulheres Rurais oferece a essas mulheres – pertencentes ou não a organizações locais ou nacionais – orientações práticas para a construção coletiva de estratégias e ações transformadoras com ênfase nesse direito fundamental, conhecido pela sigla Dhana,...

Women are vital for the sustainable development of rural areas, bringing added value to local communities. They are frequently the driving force behind innovation, diversification, and the development of new opportunities. In short, women give life to rural areas. 

Despite improvements in maternal mortality globally, hundreds of women continue to die daily. The World Health Organisation therefore advises all women in low-and-middle income countries to give birth in healthcare facilities. Barriers to seeking intrapartum care have been described in Thaddeus and Maine’s Three Delays Model, however these decisions are...

South Africa has experienced tremendous change over the last quarter century: the first democratically elected government, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, changing health, social and economic policies and now the COVID-19 pandemic. The South African Medical Research Council/Wits University Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit has, for nearly three decades, conducted...