FAO is taking a stand against sexual and gender-based violence by participating in the UN Secretary-General’s campaign: UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women.

“Think equal, build smart, innovate for change” is this year's theme for International Women’s Day.

Afikepo, a five-year nutrition programme funded by the European Union, aims to enhance nutrition security in Malawi.

Measuring the impact and results of a multiagency programme on rural women’s economic empowerment.

African Union and FAO call for greater support to rural women as agents of change to end hunger.

Sarah Sikatenda, a refugee from Democratic Republic of Congo, now farms to feed her family and build a future.

Campaign to promote indigenous women’s rights and role in policy discussions for Zero Hunger

Raising awareness and sharing expertise on the links between gender equality, agricultural development, and climate change adaptation.

While the digital revolution is reaching rural areas in many developing countries, the rural digital divide continues to present considerable challenges. The problem is even more acute for women, who face a triple divide: digital, rural, and gender.

This International Women's Day, UN agencies in Rome will focus discussions on the role of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in supporting rural women's economic empowerment, voice and status.

“Sweden is happy to continue supporting a programme that has shown promising results and hopes that these new funds will convince other donors to join the partnership.”

Six out of ten international migrants reside in Asia and Europe, and a large share of them are from rural areas. Often, when these migrants settle into urban areas and find work, they send money back home to the families they’ve left behind.

The traditional method of fish-smoking in the small fishing community of Unnichchai, in eastern Sri Lanka sees women spending many hours tending to fish laid out on mesh over smoking coals. Health hazards from smoke inhalation are high, while the output f

Interview with FAO’s Deputy Director-General, Daniel Gustafson

The $36 million joint project aims at providing immediate assistance to over 630,000 poor and food-insecure people in Yemen — more than 30 percent of whom are women — as well as increasing longer term agricultural resilience in the conflict-ridden country

Investing in rural transformation and reaching a world free of hunger and malnutrition go hand in hand

Women are more likely to be food insecure than men in every region of the world, according to FAO’s latest report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017.

Gender equality and women’s empowerment is central to FAO’s work in eradicating hunger and poverty, as it is to the entire 2030 Agenda. This was a key message among several discussed at the recent Special Event on “Leaving no one behind: Achieving gender

A special event looks into ways to achieve gender equality for food security, nutrition and sustainable development.

Notimex will produce and disseminate news content to raise awareness about rural women's key role in achieving sustainable development.