FAO COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme: Economic inclusion and social protection to reduce poverty: Pro-poor COVID-19 responses for an inclusive post-pandemic economic recovery

20/08/2020

The socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic add urgency to the call to eradicate poverty, particularly in rural areas. Rural women bear a disproportionate burden in the COVID-19 crisis as agricultural producers, processors and traders, and are affected by deeply rooted gender discriminatory social norms and economic practices. This brochure considers how the pervasive inequalities between rural and urban inhabitants, rich and poor, women and men exacerbate these effects. 5 pp.

Rural Women and Girls 25 years after Beijing: critical agents of positive change

06/08/2020

This document highlights the importance to not only take stock of the broad experiences of rural women and girls, but also to recognize and address the specific needs and distinct realities faced by those constituting these two groups. This includes good practices from the members of the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality in the thematic areas of education, food security and nutrition and many more. 48 pp.

Women’s empowerment through collective action

23/07/2020

This research report explores different organisational structures and social and cultural services from a gender-equality and women’s empowerment perspective. It examines how access to social and cultural services can facilitate women’s participation in economic and political life. The findings in this research report provide examples of how frameworks and actions can explicitly support women’s entrepreneurship and the many benefits of women’s peer-to-peer learning. 126 pp.

Gendered impacts of COVID-19 and equitable policy responses in agriculture, food security and nutrition

30/06/2020

This brief compiles evidence from current and previous epidemics to explore the socio-economic implications of the impact of the pandemic on food systems and rural economies, and how a gender-sensitive approach can help address key policy issues related to the functioning of food and agricultural systems and the special circumstances of rural women. It also provides concrete policy recommendations to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic on rural women and girls. 10 pp.

Developing gender-sensitive value chains

23/06/2020

This fact sheet describes the course that addressed why eliminating gender inequalities is pivotal to achieving the necessary transformations. It proposes FAO’s gender-sensitive value chain framework as an approach for the analysis of value chains, and for guiding interventions to address gender-based constraints. 2 pp.

Addressing gender inequalities to build resilience Stocktaking of good practices in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Strategic Objective 5

16/06/2020

This report documents good practices and lessons learned from around the world with a specific focus on emergency and humanitarian situations. The information in this report can be used as good practices that can help increase resilience of livelihoods in a gender-equitable manner. They can also be used for advocacy, to engage policy makers and practitioners to promote gender equality, and women’s empowerment in resilience and humanitarian. 48 pp.

Running farmer field schools in times of COVID-19

03/06/2020

This handbook provides guidance and suggestions to farmer field school (FFS) facilitators, master trainers, project coordinators and rural advisors on running FFS and other agricultural training activities in times of COVID-19. It includes basic protective measures, important considerations, proposed FFS activities, links to the World Health Organization (WHO) resources and videos and more. 83 pp.

Animal vaccination training empowers women in Bangladesh - Stories of change

28/05/2020

In Bangladesh, the FAO Upazila to Community (U2C) initiative believes that by giving training on vaccination, biosecurity and surveillance to women, who are usually the custodians of livestock, it is possible to improve livestock health and ensure food security in their communities. This happened with Helena, a 35-year-old poultry farmer, wife and mother-of-three, who became a community vaccinator after taking the training delivered by an Upazila livestock officer. 2 pp.