Publications
FAO Europe and Central Asia Gender Newsletter, May 2022 - Issue #7
20/06/2022
Each issue of FAO Europe and Central Asia Gender Newsletter explores and discusses women’s and men’s experiences in agriculture and food security in the region familiarizes the reader with relevant FAO activities and initiatives. 5 pp.
Achieving de facto gender equality in land, forest and fisheries tenure - Scaling up the adoption of temporary special measures in national legal frameworks
17/06/2022
This legal paper provides an outlook on the legal options available to lawyers, policy makers and parliamentarians to achieve substantive gender equality in tenure rights. It puts a spotlight on Articles 3 and 4 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) which require states to adopt temporary special measures to achieve substantive equality between men and women. 42 pp.
Walking the talk
16/06/2022
This report summaries the Learning Exchange that gave the ECOWAS Parliamentarians an exposure to the comprehensive Rwanda Model for gender equality and women’s empowerment in terms of governance, accountability, vision, and actions. it includes comments and reactions from some of the Parliamentarians. 32 p.
Climate resilience and disaster risk analysis for gender-sensitive value chains
14/06/2022
This publication is to facilitate gender analysis in value chain operations, considering climate change effects, in order to enhance adaptive capacities of value chain actors and aims to facilitate the analysis of the factors that determine gender-differentiated vulnerability to climate change and risks. 40 pp.
FAO Europe and Central Asia Gender Newsletter, August 2022 - Issue #8
23/05/2022
The war in Ukraine has caused extensive damage and loss of life in the country. Nearly one-third of Ukrainians have been displaced and 5.6 million refugees, mostly women, have sought refuge in neighbouring countries and Europe. 6 pp.
Women farmers’ access to sustainable agricultural mechanization
22/05/2022
This flyer provides information about the constraints women farmers face in accessing sustainable agricultural mechanization and the results of the sustainable agricultural mechanization (SAM) and FAO’s fieldwork in Nepal Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP). 2 pp.
Food policy, rural development and gender equality in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia
22/05/2022
FAO, in collaboration with the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, organized the international forum “Food policy, rural development and gender equality in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia: current trends and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic” held during March 2021. 40 pp.
Sustaining school enrolment when rains fail - A gender disaggregated analysis of the impacts of school feeding programmes on school enrolment in the context of dry shocks in Malawi
19/05/2022
Emerging evidence suggests that rural children, particularly older girls in low-income countries, are at risk of being withdrawn from school when weather-related disasters occur. Through the use of household and community panel survey data, this paper demonstrates the positive impacts of school feeding programmes (SFP) as an important tool to help improve school completion rates, educational advancement, and human capital formation in the context of a rapidly changing climate. 39 pp.