Publications
Empowering the rural disabled in Asia and the Pacific: Disabled women in rural areas of the region
25/12/1997
Disabled women comprise one of the most neglected segment of the population in Asia and the Pacific. This paper aims to review some existing data on the disabled to help design effective programmes for educating, training and employing the disabled.
Gender and participation in agricultural development planning
09/06/1997
A review of ten case studies written about FAO field projects that tested methods and tools for gender-sensitive participatory agricultural policy-making and planning.
Workshop on gender roles and issues in artisanal fisheries in West Africa
05/06/1997
A collection of documents presented at the above workshop. They are summaries of indvidual reports, which cover issues such as women's income generating activities and sanitation conditions of women and children in fishing communities. 47 pp.
Cross-sectoral responses to HIV/AIDS: Impacts of HIV/AIDS on food security and rural livelihoods
30/07/1996
This brochure presents some key findings from HIV/AIDS impacts surveys in rural areas in Namibia, Uganda and Zambia. 8 pp.
Guidelines for the improvement of statistics on women
28/06/1996
A practical guide to amending national agricultural survey programmes in order to improve the collection and dissemination of adequate gender-disaggregated data.
Proceedings from AGROTEC/FAO workshop: Gender and agricultural engineering
20/06/1996
The objective of the workshop was to increase attention to women as important actors in the field of agricultural engineering. It was organized jointly with AGROTEC, a programme based in Zimbabwe that addressed gender issues in its work on smallholder agricultural technologies.
Empowering Zambian rural women through small farmer groups
19/01/1996
The focus of this research is to document the impact of the FAO People's Participation Programme (PPP), which began in Zambia in 1983. The programme has helped to increase the effectiveness of many rural services and development initiatives by forming solid groups in which women are actively participating.
Effects of group formation on rural women’s access to services in Western Province, Zambia
10/01/1996
This paper reports on some of the accomplishments achieved by the FAO People's Participation Programme (PPP). In particular, it focuses on the successful promotion of women's participation in various development initiatives in the Western Province, Zambia.