Rural communities worldwide are grappling with escalating challenges brought on by the climate crisis. As disasters become more frequent and severe, and environmental conditions grow harsher, the burden on these communities intensifies. However, it is women who are bearing the heaviest brunt of these impacts, including significant financial losses.

从渔业和水产养殖业，女性占劳动力的一半，但她们往往从事最不稳定和收入最低的工作；到土地农业，妇女通常在田地里劳作，但却不拥有土地；再到对妇女和女童的具体营养需求，或对气候变化及其影响的性别体验长期视而不见 — 如果不坚决推动性别平等，就不可能有粮食安全的未来。

粮农组织于两年前任命首席科学家时，选择了一名女性担任该职位。女性既可以成为强大的创新者，也可以成为创新的受益者。

莱蒂跃跃欲试，准备接手家里鱼塘的管理工作。

Several low- and middle-income countries have demonstrated significant progresses in measuring and promoting women’s empowerment in agriculture

In the past ten years there have been tremendous efforts to develop methodologies and tools to measure women’s empowerment in the context of agriculture in a comprehensive and standardized way

Held on the sidelines of CSW66, representatives from the UN Rome-based Agencies and UN Women strongly recommitted to implementing interventions to carry out holistic and integrated interventions for rural women.

Panelists spoke openly against systemic practices that perpetuate gender inequalities and youth exclusion in climate dialogue.

66th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66): Side event by FAO, Mountain Partnership and Slow Food International

Young farmer Ruramiso Mashumba is spearheading change in Zimbabwe.

Government officials appreciated FAO’s work in reducing hunger and enhancing the agri-food system by empowering women and closing the gender group.

FAO sub-offices in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh provinces also celebrated the day with the staff taking a gender equality pledge and celebrating the day committing to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women & girls.

The Near East and North Africa (NENA) Regional Office celebrated International Women’s Day with its staff on March 8, 2020.

2020年是《北京宣言和行动纲领》公布25周年，它为动员全球行动以实现性别平等及所有妇女和女童权利提供了前所未有的机遇。

The comprehensive programme not only helps close the skills gap, but also plays a key role in extending knowledge to marginalized and disadvantaged populations.

应对气候变化对粮食安全负面影响的一个途径是通过进一步对常用粮食产品及其利用方式的创新开展研究。

While rice cultivation thrives, villagers, especially women, earned a living along the rice production value chain, working as parboilers, millers and marketers.

通过建立用水协会，该项目同时加强公众对农业、食物加工和制备中的安全用水意识。

As funding from Belgium will only cover the technical component, the main expected result of the project is that the 250 women organized in ten mothers’ clubs will be able to apply the agricultural techniques learned.

Women’s skills in farming as a business have improved, and so has their income, filling the current local production gap and demand for vegetables, which were mainly imported from neighbouring countries before.

Ms Mboya Ka, mother of five, who manages the Douli family cistern, explains how her life was before it was established.