Gender

Projects

FAO's work on gender equality and women's empowerment at country level

16/03/2017
“It is a terrifying reality that women in South Sudan have little to no rights,” explains Abdal Monium Osman, FAO Head of Programmes in South Sudan.
06/03/2017
A look at FAO’s work with rural men and women farmers in a remote and rugged region of Bangladesh.
14/02/2017
The indigenous Mayangna women of the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve in northern Nicaragua face poverty, isolation, domestic violence and triple discrimination based on their gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic situation.
10/02/2017
FAO provides disaster risk reduction and management training to Laotian men and women farmers.
14/12/2016
In 2010, severe flooding killed nearly 2 000 people in Pakistan and wiped out 1.6 million homes. Whole villages were submerged, and families lost not only their homes, but also their livestock and standing crops.