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

Zoila Esperanza Morán never learned how to read or write. As the eldest girl in a family of two sisters and a brother, she never had a chance to go to school. “Education is not important for women,” her mother would say. And so Zoila spent her childhood h

Mahabat Botasheva is the enthusiastic leader of a group of five women in the village of Blagoveshenka in Jalal-Abad province, Kyrgyzstan. Last year, the women started a business in potted flowers. This is the story of how it took root, and how it’s growin

Depuis 2006, les Clubs Dimitra jouent un rôle crucial dans le renforcement des communautés rurales en Afrique sub-saharienne, avec un accent particulier sur l'autonomisation des femmes.

“I am confident that this groundnut cultivation will help educate my children and earn a substantial income for my family” says Nelka Kumari Ariyasena.

“Before the training, I was unable to manage money. I spent carelessly and did not even recognize that there is a future.”

“As a market woman, I never understood my business. But I now understand my business because I learnt about the importance of saving money.”

A simple and relatively inexpensive technology is revolutionizing the way West Africans smoke their fish.

Cristina Amaral, Deputy Regional Representative for FAO in Europe and Central Asia, discusses the importance of women's rights and gender issues in the context of FAO's work in the region.

Joyce Makaka owns a fish farm in Kakamega County, in western Kenya. Today, her business is thriving, and employs a team of workers. Yet Joyce remembers when things were not as easy, and she had to struggle to keep her fish farm afloat.

Malgré le rôle fondamental des femmes dans la production agricole, elles ont souvent tendance à avoir moins accès aux TIC, les laissant elles-mêmes et leurs familles en situation de désavantage.

Plus de 150 millions de garçons et de filles dans le monde sont privés de leur enfance à cause du travail des enfants. Cent-huit millions d'entre eux travaillent dans l'agriculture.

L’accès à la terre et aux ressources naturelles permet de se procurer de la nourriture et de s’affranchir de la faim.

Les nouvelles poêles LPG permettront aux familles de cuisiner en toute sécurité, sans avoir besoin de collecter le bois combustible des forêts. Elles permettront également d'améliorer la sécurité des enfants et des femmes, qui risquent des violences.

Les technologies de l'information et de la communication, comme celles utilisées par Suzana, sont depuis longtemps considérées comme des moteurs du développement rural.

Les activités du programme contribueront à renforcer l’autonomisation des femmes et leur inclusion dans toutes les étapes de mise en œuvre, en tenant compte des obstacles sociaux et culturels auxquels les femmes sont confrontées en milieu rural au Yémen.