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.

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.

In marking International Day of Rural Women, FAO, IFAD and WFP organized a virtual event attended by nearly 300 participants who tuned in from the four corners of the globe.

The COVID-19 pandemic calls for an instant synchronized, people-centered and gender-sensitive response.