For FAO, gender equality is key to ending hunger and poverty. Through its 2020–2030 Global Policy on Gender Equality and the Regional Gender Strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Organization promotes equality in access to resources, opportunities, representation in decision-making spaces, and equitable distribution of work, with special attention to rural, Indigenous, young, and Afro-descendant women.

Since 2016, FAO has led the Regional Campaign “Rural Women, Women with Rights”, an intersectoral initiative in partnership with 33 government institutions, civil society organizations, UN agencies, research and education centers, and the Inter-American system. The campaign works tirelessly to promote the rights and empowerment of rural women in all their diversity.