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12/06/2020
Enhancing livelihoods of rural population, particularly of women, is part of the FAO-EU support to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia in the implementation of the gender inclusive National Strategy for Agricultural Extensi
12/05/2020
All participants agreed that as governments develop longer-term economic stimulus packages to help societies recover from the pandemic.
06/03/2020
FAO, IFAD and WFP mark International Women’s Day. Events marking this year's IWD present opportunities to mobilize global action to achieve gender equality...
25/11/2019
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.
08/03/2019
“Think equal, build smart, innovate for change” is this year's theme for International Women’s Day.
12/12/2018
Afikepo, a five-year nutrition programme funded by the European Union, aims to enhance nutrition security in Malawi.
06/12/2018
Measuring the impact and results of a multiagency programme on rural women’s economic empowerment.
27/09/2018
African Union and FAO call for greater support to rural women as agents of change to end hunger.
19/09/2018
Sarah Sikatenda, a refugee from Democratic Republic of Congo, now farms to feed her family and build a future.
08/08/2018
Campaign to promote indigenous women’s rights and role in policy discussions for Zero Hunger
19/06/2018
Raising awareness and sharing expertise on the links between gender equality, agricultural development, and climate change adaptation.
08/03/2018
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.
07/03/2018
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.
05/03/2018
“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.”
02/03/2018
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.
04/12/2017
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
27/11/2017
Interview with FAO’s Deputy Director-General, Daniel Gustafson
17/10/2017
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
12/10/2017
Investing in rural transformation and reaching a world free of hunger and malnutrition go hand in hand
25/09/2017
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.