Publications
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Briefing note on Gaza and West Bank
01/03/2024
This brief focuses on assessing the gender-related impacts of the current hostilities in Gaza, emphasizing the importance of understanding the specific needs and vulnerabilities of men, women, girls, and boys. It highlights the necessity of identifying gender-based constraints and vulnerabilities to ensure an appropriate and accountable response that leaves no one behind. 8 p.
Preparing the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in the Context of Food Security and Nutrition - GCP/GLO/493/MUL
01/03/2024
Despite years of progress and global commitments, gender disparities and discrimination in food security persist around the world, particularly affecting women and girls in vulnerable situations. To address these issues, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) included the development of a set of Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment in the context of Food Security and Nutrition in its 2020–2023 Multi-Year Programme of Work (MYPoW). 2 p.
Levelling the farm fields: A cross-country study of the determinants of gender-based yield gaps
01/03/2024
This study returns to the question of gender-based differences in farm productivity, decomposing differences in farm yields between males and females. We identify one part of the gap explained by differences in attributes and access to productive assets, and another part explained by differences in returns to assets and attributes (i.e. “unexplained” differences). 120 p.