Publications
FAO’s Collaboration with Parliamentary Networks: Engaging with parliamentarians to promote food security and nutrition and sustainable agrifood systems
01/02/2024
In 2023, the second Global Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition in, resulted with the approval of the first Global Parliamentary Pact against Hunger and Malnutrition. The Pact represents a historic milestone in the fight to end hunger and achieve food security for all, as the first global parliamentary pact on the progressive realization of the right to adequate food and the transformation of agrifood systems. 2 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.
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.
Women-led cooperatives support programme
01/02/2024
"FAO Türkiye’s Women-led cooperatives support programme" booklet offers a multi-faceted look into the role of cooperatives in women’s economic, social, and cultural empowerment. The document is an illuminating exposition on the intersection of gender equality, sustainable development, and agricultural development cooperatives. 64 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.
Syrian Arab Republic | Project profile - Building local resilience in the Syrian Arab Republic
01/02/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is implementing a multiyear resilience project in six governorates in the Syrian Arab Republic with high levels of food insecurity. The project integrates climate‑smart, agriculture‑oriented actions with gender‑responsive interventions to help vulnerable farming households boost their production, become more resilient to shocks, and improve their food security, nutrition and self-reliance. 4 p.
Protection issues faced by women farmers in Pakistan
01/02/2024
This study identifies gender-related protection issues that impact women farmers in Pakistan, and suggests strategy solutions that can contribute to emergency and resilience strategies to safeguard their rights. It focuses on women farmers engaged in the production of four major crops: cotton, maize, wheat and vegetables/fruit. Women in the fisheries and livestock sectors were also interviewed to better understand women’s contributions to food systems and climate change resilience. 72 p.
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.