Publications
Course 3: Gender-responsive budgeting for agriculture and climate policies
01/05/2024
This course aims to support parliamentarians in ensuring that adequate financial resources are allocated to achieve food security and gender equality. It is designed to equip parliamentarians with the knowledge and tools to effectively address the gender dimensions in budgeting and drive positive change as parliamentarians. 2 p.
Course 1: Addressing gender equality in climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture
01/05/2024
The course aims at facilitating the exchange of promising approaches, tools and good practices that can be used by parliamentarians and policymakers to support the design and implementation of sustainable and gender-transformative climate policies and legislations to advance gender equality and empower women and youth in the agriculture and food security sectors. 2 p.
Course 2: Building equitable and inclusive agrifood systems
01/05/2024
This course is intended to strengthen the knowledge and competencies of parliamentarians and policymakers on the relevance of gender issues in agrifood systems and know how to build equitable and inclusive agrifood systems, and be able to monitor the gender impacts of policies and investments. It gives an overview of agrifood systems and coordinated actions towards the food supply, the food demand and the food environment. 2 p.
Gender Asia Pacific Newsletter, May 2024 – Issue #3
01/05/2024
The newsletter highlights activities, results, and experiences from FAO teams on the ground dedicated to addressing gender gaps and inequalities, particularly in the context of eliminating hunger and poverty in Asia and the Pacific. 7 p.
Eastern African dairy value chains: what prospects for women in trade?
01/05/2024
This report reviews gender issues in the Eastern Africa dairy value chains, with a focus on markets and trade, in the context of broader regional policy frameworks and evolving market scenarios. In particular, gender policy developments in agricultural and trade policies relevant for the dairy sector are assessed for Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda. 73 p.
Guidelines for mainstreaming gender and youth in Small-Scale Fisheries Organizations (SSFO)
01/04/2024
Stemming from Namibia's successful implementation of sustainable fishing guidelines, the publication emphasizes gender equality and youth involvement for food security and poverty eradication. It offers practical guidance for establishing gender and youth-responsive Small-Scale Fisheries Organizations (SSFO) to promote sustainability and social equity in the sector. 8 p.
Guide to mainstream gender in the FAO project cycle
01/04/2024
This is an updated version of the 2017 Guide to mainstreaming gender in the FAO project cycle. It provides project formulators with practical guidance and tools to implement the gender related requirements established in the different phases of the FAO project cycle, and to support the formulation of projects and programs that contribute to advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in agrifood systems, as foreseen by FAO’s mandate. 32 pp.
Ensuring that rural advisory services are responsive to women: good practices from FAO experiences in Europe and Central Asia
01/04/2024
This report builds upon FAO’s work promoting gender mainstreaming in extension and advisory services, cataloguing challenges and suggesting strategies for increasing the gender responsiveness of rural advisory services globally. The purpose of this review is to apply FAO’s accumulated knowledge about gender equality in the context of rural advisory services to assess the situation in the Europe and Central Asia region. 64 p.