Working with women's associations in the Gambia to establish a modern, competitive, and commercially vibrant food processing sector.

Dans le domaine de l’agriculture, les femmes sont des agents essentiels de la sécurité alimentaire et de la croissance économique rurale, mais leurs conditions de travail sont souvent pénibles et leur contribution est insuffisamment reconnue. La Journée m

The division of labour in agriculture often follows traditional patterns. Across a variety of sectors, from smallholder farmers to pastoralists and from forest keepers to fishers, men and women usually have very different—though complementary—roles, with

Interrelation complexe entre la bioénergie et la sécurité alimentaire, et problèmes liés à la poussée de la demande de produits alimentaires et de carburant dans un monde où les carburants fossiles sont de plus en plus rares

Plusieurs centaines de femmes vivant dans les campagnes d'Afrique, d'Asie et d'Amérique latine ont récemment participé à des consultations locales sur l'insécurité alimentaire et ses conséquences. Quelques points de vue...

Une nouvelle base de données en ligne, lancée par la FAO, renseigne largement sur l'une des principales pierres d'achoppement au développement rural : les inégalités largement répandues entre les hommes et les femmes en matière d'accès à la terre.

La solution au problème du travail des enfants et de l'exploitation des filles et garçons dans l'agriculture passe par l'amélioration des conditions socioéconomiques des populations rurales. Une étude de la FAO fait le point de la situation au Ghana.

As the 55th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) unfolds in New York, FAO urges world leaders to ensure that rural women are fully included in the design, testing and use of agricultural technologies and innovations.

Compared to men, women are frequently disadvantaged in their access to and control over forest resources and in their ability to take advantage of economic opportunities, according to an FAO paper that calls for action on gender disparities in the forestry

Land-related investments in agriculture can greatly impact rural people’s lives. One of the main conclusions drawn from four FAO studies is that women’s livelihoods were improved when private investors took measures to increase women’s participation in ag

Ninety-nine years of secure access to good-quality land. To a rural women's group in Banizoumbou, Niger, this isn't just a fairy-tale. It represents the kind of happy ending you can have when everyone in and around a rural community – from the village chi

Across Liberia’s Montserrado County, a special programme is enabling market women to take their businesses — and their lives — to the next level.

L’accès aux terres agricoles s’est révélé être la première source d’inégalités entre les hommes et les femmes dans les profils nationaux en matière de genre établis pour la première fois au Cambodge, en République démocratique populaire lao et au Viet Nam

The findings of FAO’s recently launched State of Food and Agriculture report 2010-11 (SOFA): “Women in Agriculture: Closing the gender gap for development,” were the focus of a high-level roundtable debate organized by the three Rome-based UN agencies

Rural women are active economic agents who could unleash major advancements in hunger and poverty eradication if they were able to participate equally with men in the agricultural economy.

Family farming and smallholder farming are an important basis for sustainable food production throughout the world.

Empowering women is essential to achieving a world without hunger. This is the message highlighted by the Rome-based UN agencies and partners during this year’s commemoration of International Women’s Day.

FAO's new e-learning course aims to strengthen capacity in member countries for designing, developing, implementing and evaluating truly gender-responsive policies, programmes and projects in food and nutrition security.

In April, high-level authorities from 15 countries pledged to collaborate on a global plan to wipe out 'Peste des petits ruminants' (PPR), a deadly viral disease of sheep and goats that affects the livelihoods of smallholders and pastoralists in over 70 c

A new e-learning course from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) provides specific guidance for ensuring that the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security