Publications
Commit to Grow Equality - Global commitment to enhance gender equality in agrifood systems through financing and partnerships
01/08/2024
Commit to Grow Equality (CGE) is a global process launched by FAO and a diverse group of partners to accelerate gender equality and women’s empowerment in agrifood systems through financing, investments and partnerships. The objective is to unite key stakeholders to commit to make agrifood systems work better for women, their communities, and the planet by 2030. 5 p.
Empowering Small-Scale Fisheries for Sustainable and Inclusive Food Systems - FMM/GLO/155/MUL
01/08/2024
Small-scale fisheries (SSF) are vital for food security, nutrition, and poverty eradication, providing livelihoods to over 90 percent of the world's capture fishers, half of whom are women. Despite their importance, SSF communities face multidimensional poverty and human rights challenges. 2 p.
Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition 2023 in review
11/07/2024
The 'JP GTA - 2023 In Review' offers a snapshot of the milestones, achievements and activities of the Joint Programme over the course of the past year, with links to articles, publications and event recordings. 11p.
Farmer Field Schools (FFS) for mutual learning and collective action
01/07/2024
The Farmer Field Schools (FFS) approach promotes learning through participatory methods, knowledge and experience exchange, and direct observation through hands-on exercises in the field, discussions and decision-making. It builds on local knowledge while testing and validating scientific concepts developed elsewhere. 10 p.
Women’s financial inclusion: Alternative collateral approaches for closing the credit gap for women in agrifood systems
01/07/2024
The policy note "Women’s financial inclusion: Alternative collateral approaches for closing the credit gap for women in agrifood systems" presents examples of promising solutions to overcome the lack of collateral and facilitate women’s access to financial resources for agriculture and food system transformation. 32 p.
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024
01/07/2024
Billions of people still lack access to nutritious, safe and sufficient food. Nevertheless, progress in many countries provides hope of the possibility of getting back on track towards hunger and malnutrition eradication. Implementing the policies, investments and legislation needed to revert the current trends of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition requires proper financing for food security and nutrition. 286 p.
The State of the World’s Forests 2024
01/07/2024
This edition of The State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) provides highlights on the state of the world’s forests and explores the transformative power of evidence-based innovation in the forest sector, ranging from new technologies to creative and successful policies and institutional changes, to new ways of getting finance to forest owners and managers. 122 p.
Empowering African Women And Boosting their Livelihoods through Agricultural Trade - FMM/GLO/169/MUL
01/07/2024
Many women in agribusiness in Africa are faced by challenges, including those related to working in the informal sector, poor access to market information, finance and training, and weak compliance with trade standards, which limit their opportunities to access markets, particularly for export. Supporting women to overcome these obstacles is a prerequisite for leveraging the opportunities created by the AfCFTA and achieving economic growth. 2 p.