Publications
Implementing the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines for gender-equitable and climate-resilient food systems and livelihoods
01/03/2024
The project supports the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (the SSF Guidelines), giving particular attention to the post-harvest sector in seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Madagascar, Namibia, and two countries in Asia: Indonesia and the Philippines. 58 p.
Commit to grow equality
01/03/2024
FAO is launching a global commitment to enhance gender equality in agrifood systems through financing and partnerships titled "Commit to Grow Equality". The commitment process aims to unite governments, resource partners, private sector, UN Agencies, civil society organizations and others to commit investment and partnership for increased gender equality and women’s empowerment in agrifood systems. 2 p.
Women in fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Sea region: roles, challenges and opportunities
01/03/2024
Women play active roles throughout the fisheries value chain in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, including participating in pre-harvest activities like vessel and gear construction and maintenance, harvest activities both on board fishing vessels and from shore, and post-harvest activities such as sorting, cleaning, processing and marketing the catch, as well as in activities associated with running the fishing business, such as bookkeeping. 56 p.
Summary: The Unjust Climate
01/03/2024
Measuring the impacts of climate change on the rural poor, women and youths report assembles an impressive set of data from 24 low- and middle-income countries in five world regions to measure the effects of climate change on rural women, youths and people living in poverty. It analyses socioeconomic data collected from 109 341 rural households (representing over 950 million rural people) in these 24 countries. 16 pp.
Europe and Central Asia gender newsletter, March 2024 – Issue #13
01/03/2024
This issue reports on the latest developments in gender equality and women's empowerment through the celebration of the International Day of Rural Women in the region, the 43rd session of the European Commission on Agriculture, FAO activities and projects in the Western Balkans and regional workshops organised in Georgia and Türkiye. 6 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.
Armed conflict and gendered participation in agrifood systems: Survey evidence from 29 African countries
01/02/2024
This paper provides empirical microlevel evidence on the gendered impacts of armed conflict on economic activity in agriculture and other sectors, combining large-N sex-disaggregated survey data with temporally and spatially disaggregated conflict event data from 29 African countries. We find that local conflict exposure is only weakly related to labour-force participation, but strongly reduces the total number of hours worked and increases engagement in the agricultural sector. 45 p.
Gender gap in agricultural labour productivity: A cross-country comparison
01/02/2024
This paper's findings reveal varying gender gaps across the sampled countries, ranging from 47 percent in Nigeria and the United Republic of Tanzania to 2 percent in Ethiopia, which is the only country with no significant gender gap in labour productivity. On average, the gender gap amounts to 35 percent, with the largest portion (27 percent) attributed to the endowment effect. This background paper was prepared to inform Chapter 2 of FAO’s report on The status of women in agrifood systems. 44p.