FAO + Turkey Partnering for food security and sustainable management of natural resources

09/02/2021

This report sheds light on the joint efforts and projects implemented through the cooperation between Turkey and FAO. Key activities include strengthening the capacities of rural women in Turkey and Azerbaijan and developing home-based nurseries in Tajikistan.The country has benefited from wide-ranging assistance from FAO and other partners, shaped by the FAO Country Programming Framework (CPF). 56 pp.

Role of women in agriculture in Lebanon - Briefing note

01/02/2021

The role of women in agriculture in Lebanon is still not well recognized due to limited sex-disaggregated statistics and the lack of gender analysis in the sector. This brief outlines gender gaps in Lebanon in the fields of economic participation and opportunity where many women in rural areas are not aware of their basic rights. 2 pp.

Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment in agriculture and food systems – A handbook for gender focal points

16/01/2021

Gender focal points are part of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s institutional architecture for gender, and play a key role in supporting the delivery of gender-related work. The purpose of the handbook is to serve as a comprehensive and practical reference tool for gender focal points to support their respective divisions and offices in complying with the requirements set by the corporate Policy on Gender Equality. 45 pp.

FAO Policy on Gender Equality 2020–2030

17/12/2020

Gender equality is essential to achieve FAO’s mandate of a world free from hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. The revised Policy, which will be implemented over the next ten years, is a solid instrument to drive FAO’s efforts towards addressing the inequalities that are still pervasive in agriculture and food systems and to unleash the ambitions and potential of rural women and girls. 28 pp.

Gender transformative approaches for food security, improved nutrition and sustainable agriculture – A compendium of fifteen good practices

10/12/2020

The Compendium is a product of the Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition implemented by FAO, IFAD and WFP and funded by the European Union. The compendium includes the individual templates of the 15 good practices, provides a synthesis of the main features of the 15 GTAs presenting the core characteristics of 15 GTAs 166 pp.

Gender transformative approaches for food security, improved nutrition and sustainable agriculture - A compendium of fifteen good practices (flyer

10/12/2020

This flyer to the publication Gender transformative approaches for food security, improved nutrition and sustainable agriculture - A compendium of fifteen good practices provides a background to the Compendium and briefly summarizies the fifteen good practices. Gender transformative approaches (GTAs) are essential to the achievement of food security, improved nutrition and sustainable agricultural development. 4 pp.

GOOD PRACTICE Individual Household Mentoring

09/12/2020

Projects supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) identify individual household mentoring as a project activity and provide funding to the Ministry of Local Government for implementation. They build on experiences on household mentoring gained in an earlier IFAD-supported District Livelihoods Support Programme. This document examines the purpose of the methodology and the domains of gender inequality that are addressed. 11 pp.

GOOD PRACTICE Gender Model Family

09/12/2020

Following a strong backlash from husbands who felt excluded from a revolving fund that was established to enable women to rehabilitate their livelihoods, Social Enterprise Development Foundation (SEND) International concluded that livelihood and food security projects would not be sustainable unless they started from a foundation of gender equity within the household. 11 pp.