Una serie de historias que ilustran, con ejemplos de la vida real, cómo las agricultoras rurales en Gujarat, India, encontraron soluciones a los desafíos a los que se enfrentaban.

Un nuevo estudio sostiene que para conservar con éxito las razas, hay que empoderar a las mujeres.

ONU Mujeres y las tres agencias de las Naciones Unidas ubicadas en Roma y dedicadas a la alimentación y la agricultura han lanzado hoy un programa conjunto para apoyar el empoderamiento de las mujeres rurales pobres a través de su integración económica qu

FAO's Director General José Graziano da Silva, the Executive Director of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet, the Executive Director of WFP, Ertharin Cousin, and representatives of IFAD participated in a high-level meeting at the WFP headquarters to discuss a 5-y

The Gender and Land Rights database (GLRD) launches five new country profiles from Central Asia: Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, available in English and Russian.

The G(irls)20 Summit, taking place in Mexico in advance of the G20 meeting, brings together young women, aged 18-20, from G20 countries and the African Union to look at the G20 leaders’ agenda through the lens of the economic empowerment and inclusion of

Creating better opportunities for young women in rural areas was the focus of the UN Rome-based agencies’ -- the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Food Programme (WFP) and FAO -- commemoration of International Women’s Day t

Mejores oportunidades para las mujeres y jóvenes significa potenciar la lucha contra el hambre y la pobreza

"Rural women are active economic agents who could unleash major advancements in hunger eradication and development if they were able to participate equally with men in the agricultural economy,” said FAO Deputy Director-General Ann Tutwiler, speaking at t

The 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the principal global policy-making body committed to gender equality and the advancement of women, meets 27 February- 9 March in New York and is this year dedicated to rural women’s empowerm

FAO today launched the “Men and women in agriculture: closing the gap” website, dedicated to the organization’s latest research and knowledge to close the gender gap in agriculture to achieve food security for all.

The UN launched the International Year of Cooperatives 2012 (IYC) on October 31 at the General Assembly in New York. On this occasion, FAO, IFAD and WFP held a side event on the role of agricultural cooperatives in improving the lives of smallholder men a

Gender equality was discussed as a prominent factor of food security at FAO’s celebration of World Food Day 2011 and throughout the 37th session of the United Nations Committee on Global Food Security (CFS), held at headquarters 17-22 October.

FAO, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Food Programme (WFP) and UN Women convened an Expert Group Meeting from the 20-23 September 2011 in Accra, Ghana to identify strategies and recommendations to enhance the economic

Reformar los sistemas de tenencia forestal y garantizar los derechos de propiedad de los bosques puede mejorar de forma importante los medios de subsistencia de la población y permitirles obtener ingresos de los productos forestales, ha asegurado la FAO e

The vital role of women in agriculture and rural development was the theme of the thirty-seventh session of the biennial FAO Governing Conference (25 June-2 July 2011).

Worldwide 215 million children are engaged in child labour, and of these 115 million are involved in what is considered to be hazardous work. Agriculture is the sector where the largest share of child labourers is found - a staggering 60 percent of boys a

The FAO-Dimitra Project recently launched a handbook for all development practitioners, which examines the need to include gender in communication for rural development initiatives and provides guidance on achieving this successfully.

Si las mujeres en las zonas rurales tuvieran el mismo acceso que los hombres a la tierra, la tecnología, los servicios financieros, la educación y los mercados, se podría incrementar la producción agrícola y reducir entre 100 y 150 millones el número de p

Un reciente informe elaborado por diversos organismos de la ONU sobre las consideraciones de género en el trabajo agrícola indica que las mujeres obtienen todavía menos beneficios del empleo rural y se enfrentan a nuevas dificultades debido a la actual cr