Publications
Gender equality and women's empowerment in food and agriculture - Kenya
01/01/2023
This initiative adopts holistic, integrated and transformative approaches to tackle deep-rooted causes of gender inequalities. It engages both women and men in sensitization, capacity development, dialogue, analysis, and action over gender equality, collective action, local issues and farm business for a better life. 2 pp.
Fighting child labour in Burkina Faso, Mali and Pakistan
01/01/2023
With funding from the European Union, the CLEAR Cotton project “Eliminating child labour and forced labour in the cotton, textile and garment value chains” was launched in 2018 to support the elimination of child labour and forced labour in the cotton, textile and garment value chains in target producing countries. 48 p.
Unlocking women’s capacity to become agents of change in the fight to reduce child labour in agriculture in Pakistan
12/12/2022
This fact sheet presents the areas of intervention implemented as part of the project by FAO in Pakistan as well as their approaches and results with a focus on the lessons learned from empowering women with knowledge, skills and means to start their own businesses. 8 pp.
FAO Europe and Central Asia Gender Newsletter, December 2022 - Issue #9
01/12/2022
In each quarterly issue, the reader meets our real heroes and reads their stories: how communities, especially women from remote villages, strive to achieve a better life and how FAO together with various partners and governments stand hand-in-hand with them to achieve effective results. 6 pp.
Mountain women of the world – Challenges, resilience and collective power
01/12/2022
This publication highlights the stories and voices of mountain women, with a focus on rural areas and mountain tourism, and outlines a path forward to promote their empowerment and help them to realize their potential as agents of sustainable mountain development. 68 pp.
Good practices for promoting gender equality through rural advisory services
01/12/2022
This objective of this publication is to support RAS providers to adopt and adapt these good practices so that they can design and deliver truly gender-responsive services. 96 pp.
Gender, agriculture and rural development in Europe and Central Asia
01/12/2022
In its 2011 flagship publication, The State of Food and Agriculture: Women in Agriculture, the FAO made the case that women’s unequal access to resources and opportunities not only holds them back but is a determining factor in the underperformance of the agriculture sector in many countries. 42 p.
Practical guide on how to eliminate gender-based violence and protect rural communities through food security and agriculture interventions
01/12/2022
This guidance is meant to support country offices, FAO staff and strategic partners in the fight against any form of gender-based violence, facilitate the integration of protection issues in an FAO project cycle, and support the collection and analysis of data disaggregated by sex and other social variables for generating the evidence for policy-making and planning of gender-responsive and gender-transformative interventions. 96 p.