“Those closest to the pain can speak toward the solutions that we need with the greatest clarity,” she said at a recent GLF Live session.

As the country responds to and recovers from the devastating effects of the pandemic, we are offered a valuable opportunity to bring about gender equality, especially for women’s leadership.

FAO-IFAD-WFP event to focus on women's leadership in efforts to build back better from the pandemic

“On the eve of the International Women’s Day, I call for solidarity in standing for women’s rights and opportunities."

The virtual series of webinars has the main goal of reviewing the achievements, potential and challenges of community engagement for empowerment in development and humanitarian interventions and strategies.

The women of Topchu retain ownership of their designs and will be able to reproduce the fashion items and sell them directly, benefiting from the increased international exposure.

On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Global Environment Facility is highlighting seven women scientists from across our partnership who play essential roles in addressing our planet’s most pressing environmental challenges.

Women in fisheries need to be seen and acknowledged, gain equal rights and equal access to credit and technology, and have equal say in decision-making and policy processes.

Tackling gender inequality and its relationship with food loss in fish value chains is a development priority and requires a multi-stakeholder approach, involving small-scale value chain actors, development partners and all those who can make a difference

Empowering young women and men entails supporting youth-led and youth-serving organizations in their capacity to represent and engage young people while strengthening their social capital.

“More than the money I am making, I am happy to be working on my own small livestock business which I can develop into something big,” he said.

Women from other districts in Côte d’Ivoire, and even from neighbouring countries, have since come to learn about the group dynamics and operation of the techniques so they can use them too.

Although one worker in two in fisheries and aquaculture is a woman, women are invisible in the industry and their work unrecognized and under-estimated.

FAO, IFAD and WFP launch a Compendium of Good Practices on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition.

FAO in Pakistan is striving to reduce the inequality gap between rural women and men in access to productive resources, services and rural institutions.

The last of this year’s VirtualiTeas, a series of events organized by FAO’s Women Committee, was held in support of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence.

Launched on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the video production was led by UN Women and WFP together with FAO, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNODC, and WHO.

New grant programme will fund labour-saving agricultural machinery and equipment for women living in the Ateni, Plevi, Tvishi and Sori communities of Georgia.

If forests are “dwindling”, how would the family survive on only a small, partial income from the sale of seedlings and fruit, and growing wheat and raising livestock?

As COVID-19 exposed the vulnerability in our food system, this briefing underscored why empowering women and closing the gender gap is central to addressing global food security and why women need to be at the center of COVID-19 response efforts.