Publications
Development finance for gender equality and women’s empowerment in agrifood systems
01/04/2025
This brief, part of a series of policy briefs on Financing for Development, explores the funding landscape for GEWE projects. Climate finance often overlooks GEWE, despite its importance. Gender bonds offer a promising solution, but better tracking systems are needed. 20 p.
Financing food for a better future: Financing agrifood systems transformation to increase resilience, and prevent and mitigate food crises
01/04/2025
This report analyses the agrifood financing landscape, particularly in light of the current global polycrisis, and provides recommendations for reform to ensure that sufficient funding reaches the countries and people most in need. 96 p.
Gender-inclusive toolkit for financial institutions in sub-Saharan Africa: Making the African Continental Free Trade Area work for women
26/03/2025
This toolkit complements a policy brief developed under the "Empowering Women and Boosting Livelihoods through Agricultural Trade: Leveraging the African Continental Free Trade Area" programme, which provides concrete recommendations for financiers and other relevant stakeholders to foster gender-responsive financing. 44 p.
Commit to Grow Equality: Investing in the future of women in agrifood systems - Progress report 2025
12/03/2025
This first progress report, published one year after the launch of FAO’s Commit to Grow Equality (CGE) initiative, presents an overview of the initiative and highlights 17 commitments made by CGE partners to advance gender equality and women's empowerment in agrifood systems.
Europe and Central Asia Gender Newsletter, March 2025 – Issue #17
01/03/2025
In this issue we feature FAO’s latest initiatives aimed at promoting gender equality in rural advisory services, agriculture and rural development in Europe and Central Asia. In this edition, we explore how women’s empowerment is catalyzing change within agrifood systems and provide insights from FAO’s Gender Week that highlight advances in gender equality. 4 p.
Mainstreaming gender in national drought plans, national action plans and national policies
01/02/2025
Integrating gender equality and social inclusion is vital for effective climate resilience. A Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) framework recognizes that climate risks are not gender-neutral and that women, youth, and persons with disabilities possess unique knowledge and resilience. 57 p.
Empowering women veterinary paraprofessionals through gender-responsive training
01/02/2025
Two FAO initiatives have developed and tested gender-responsive training packages for veterinary paraprofessionals to enhance productivity for both women and men livestock keepers while promoting capacity building and business sustainability for women and men frontline professionals. This paper provides an overview of how these training programmes were designed and implemented with a cross-cutting gender-responsive approach.48 p.
A gender-responsive methodology for fish loss assessment in the small-scale fisheries sector
01/02/2025
The gender-responsive fish loss assessment methodology (GRFLAM) provides the conceptual framework and concrete approach to identify and analyse the limitations actors face due to gender inequalities along the value chain, as these GBCs can contribute to losses. 72 p.