Publications
Pakistan: National gender profile of agriculture and rural livelihoods (Country Gender Assessment Series)
01/05/2024
This Country Gender Assessment of the Agriculture and Rural Sectors (CGA-ARS) in Pakistan identifies several gaps, challenges, priorities, and opportunities related to gender equality and rural women’s empowerment. It offers an evidence-informed analysis of rural women’s experiences, challenges and opportunities in the context of sociocultural norms and gendered power dynamics in households and society at large. 84 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.
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.
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.
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.
Strengthening the livelihoods of vulnerable households and preventing child labour through cash transfers in Burkina Faso (available in French)
01/04/2024
This promising practice fact sheet describes the design, implementation and lessons learned of the project based on the use of cash transfers as an assistance modality associated with awareness-raising on child labour and the promotion of children's access to the education system, while also establishing the foundations of a partnership between the agriculture, education, and social sectors. 12 p.
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Rural women and financial inclusion
25/03/2024
Improving the gender-responsiveness of design and delivery of rural finance interventions through innovative approaches and mechanisms is important for promoting rural women’s economic empowerment. This document highlights practical and actionable approaches from the sector in order to guide the work of practitioners engaging at country level to pursue the above objective. 72 pp.
The unjust climate
05/03/2024
This 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. These data are combined in both space and time with 70 years of georeferenced data on daily precipitation and temperatures. 120 p.