Insights
An in-depth look at FAO’s work on gender equality and women’s empowerment
Supporting Asia-Pacific agriculture with better data
25/06/2010
Access to agricultural land emerged as the number-one source of gender inequality in national gender profiles compiled for the first time ever in Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Vietnam.
Ghana: Striving for sustainable agriculture without child labour
18/05/2010
Improving social and economic conditions for rural people is one of the keys to tackling child labour. So is reducing the exploitation of girls and boys in agriculture. An FAO study in Ghana looks at the issue.
Protecting the property rights of women and children in Mozambique
15/04/2010
Evictions, confiscation of property and discrimination are among the experiences increasingly reported by widows and orphans in Mozambique. An FAO-commissioned report offers recommendations to secure women’s and children’s rights to property and inheritan
Investing in rural women for food security
10/03/2010
Chicken-raising collectives, water-harvesting systems and community-based savings and credit schemes are some of the strategies that women’s groups have used to boost food production and incomes, showing themselves to be indispensable in the fight against
New FAO database eyes gender gap in land rights
16/02/2010
A new database launched by FAO puts the spotlight on one of the major stumbling blocks to rural development – widespread inequalities between men and women in their access to land.
Food security in times of crisis: rural women speak out
15/12/2009
Hundreds of rural women in Africa, Asia and Latin America took part recently in grassroots consultations on food insecurity and its impacts. A selection of viewpoints...
Food security risks of liquid biofuel production
23/11/2009
The complex interrelationship between bioenergy and food security, and the challenges posed by the growing demand for food and fuel in an increasingly carbon-constrained world
What are "women's crops", and why?
12/11/2009
Farming women may grow lower-value subsistence crops not because they prefer to, but because they cannot access the resources that would permit them to do otherwise
Rural employment, gender and poverty
11/11/2009
Poverty often pushes women into off-farm employment, which can make a critical difference in the poverty status of their households. How much a woman benefits depends on how her new income is distributed
Gender impacts of globalizing agriculture
10/11/2009
For small scale farmers, the benefits of agricultural commercialization can carry "significant economic and social costs"
Land rights in Africa: Revisiting customary institutions
09/11/2009
In order to support women's struggles for equality, new land legislation in Africa has to include explicit and mandatory mechanisms of inclusion