Publications
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
This handbook is intended to support the gender focal points, at FAO headquarters and in the decentralized offices, in addressing gender issues in their work. 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.
Gender transformative approaches for food systems and nutrition: Individual Household Mentoring (GOOD PRACTICE)
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.
Gender transformative approaches for food security and nutrition: Journeys of Transformation or Engaging Men as Allies in Women’s Economic Empowerment (GOOD PRACTICE)
09/12/2020
Promundo is a global leader in promoting gender justice and preventing violence by engaging men and boys in partnership with women, girls and people of all gender identities. The Journeys of Transformation methodology emerged from the vision that, although women’s economic empowerment programming has powerful benefits on its own, it can be made even more effective at advancing gender equality when men are deliberately engaged as allies. 10 pp.
Gender transformative approaches for food security and nutrition: Gender Model Family (GOOD PRACTICE)
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.