Publications
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.
FAO framework on ending child labour in agriculture
01/08/2020
The purpose of the FAO’s framework is to guide the Organization and its personnel in the integration of measures addressing child labour within FAO’s typical work, programmes and initiatives at global, regional and country levels. It aims to enhance compliance with organization’s operational standards, and strengthen coherence and synergies across the Organization and with partners. 148 p.
Women’s empowerment through collective action: How can forest and farm producer organisations can make a difference
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.
Rural youth and the COVID-19 pandemic
01/06/2020
As governments and development partners take steps to address the economic and social effects of COVID-19, they should not allow a reversal of the rural youth progress achieved in recent years in terms of inclusion in food systems, access to education, vocational education and training, and access to decent employment. 8 p.