Policy brief: Unlocking the value of Namibia’s small-scale fisheries sector through policy action

01/02/2024

Namibia's small-scale fisheries sector, a cornerstone of the country's economy and social fabric, faces challenges related to unsustainable practices, inadequate infrastructure, and limited market access. To address these challenges and harness the sector's immense potential, this policy brief proposes a set of recommendations. 4 p.

Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls

01/02/2024

This publications explains about FAO's pilot project, the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), under FAO's project (Building local resilience in Syria), explaining the design of the project, focus, activities, target and expected impact.The VAWG project integrate a pioneering series of complementary gender-transformative approaches (GTAs) within FAO’s agriculture-oriented platforms. 2 p.

Empowering rural women to engage in responsible agricultural investments (RAI) in Sierra Leone

01/01/2024

FAO developed this manual, in collaboration with Solidaridad West Africa, to support trainers in preparing and delivering the training on empowering rural women to engage in responsible agricultural investments (RAI). 86 p.

Integrating Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) into multitopic surveys

01/01/2024

Poor diets are a leading cause of death and disease, yet a chronic lack of dietary data jeopardizes effective, evidence-based actions on nutrition. The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator is a simple, food group-based indicator that can be integrated into existing large-scale surveys with relative ease, enabling the collection of valuable data on dietary diversity. This can in turn inform policies and interventions to improve nutrition in low- and middle-income countries. 10 p.

Promoting business opportunities for youth and women in inland fisheries and aquaculture food systems in arid areas

01/01/2024

This publication is the main outcome of a technical workshop on ‘Market system approach for resilient agri-aquaculture food systems in desert and arid countries’ organized by the FAO sub-regional office for North Africa from 13 to 15 October 2022 in Tunis, Tunisia. The workshop brought together experts from Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Tunisia as well as FAO staff with the aim of developing a work programme for the development of the sub-sector. 4 p.

Social protection as a pathway to sustaining peace

01/01/2024

The working paper also recognizes that social protection interventions in a conflict-affected context can potentially be harmful and fuel social tensions in the absence of adequate consideration of local power dynamics. It therefore calls for social protection strategies and programmes to be conflict-sensitive – beyond the “do no harm” – to make explicit contributions to peace. 70 p.

Gender-sensitive income-generating activities in the Niger

01/01/2024

From 2017 to 2023, with support from the Government of Canada, the United Nations Rome-based agencies (RBA) – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) – implemented a joint pilot initiative to increase resilience in food security and nutrition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Niger and Somalia. 14 p.

Women’s employment in agrifood systems

01/12/2023

Tackling poverty and food insecurity requires research and policies that go beyond the agriculture sector and consider the entire agrifood system. Women play important roles in agrifood systems, but their work in the different segments of agrifood systems is poorly captured. 33 pp.