Publications
Empowering rural women, powering agriculture: FAO's work on gender
06/12/2018
This brochure presents FAO’s sustained and consistent work towards gender equality and the empowerment of rural women, which are at the core of the Organization’s efforts to end hunger, malnutrition and rural poverty. It provides examples of FAO’s work in agriculture, forestry, fisheries and other sectors in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, and shows that enabling rural women to have the same access as men to resources, services and opportunities, translates into 25 pp.
The Gender and Rural Advisory Services Assessment Tool
06/12/2018
Gender-aware rural advisory services can help close the gender gap in agriculture by making information, new technologies, skills and knowledge more relevant and accessible to both women and men farmers, with positive effects on household incomes, food security and nutrition. The Gender and Rural Advisory Services Assessment Tool (GRAST) is designed to support providers of rural advisory services in their efforts to develop gender-sensitive programmes. 96 pp.
Empowering youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food systems: Rapid capacity assessment tool
04/12/2018
This rapid capacity assessment tool aims to help practitioners (such as government agencies, youth organizations, or development partners) to carry out a multi-stakeholder assessment of existing and needed capacities to engage and empower youth to carry out and benefit from responsible investment in agriculture and food systems. 30 pp.
Guidelines for collecting data for sex-disaggregated and gender-specific indicators in national agricultural surveys-2nd Edition
01/12/2018
These Guidelines aim to improve the availability of systematically integrated and comparable sex-disaggregated and gender-relevant data within agricultural surveys by bridging significant data gaps. 103 p.
SEWA-FAO Partnership: Promoting rural women’s empowerment in India
28/11/2018
Since 2016, FAO and the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) have collaborated to foster rural prosperity and promote rural women's empowerment in India. SEWA supports small-scale and marginalized women farmers and informal sector workers in India through its grassroots advocacy, social mobilization, and socio-economic services through a strong network of social solidarity partners. 2 pp.
Pathways to achieving food security, sustainable peace and gender equality: Evidence from three FAO interventions
23/11/2018
The article illustrates how five pathways have operated and interacted in three selected FAO interventions, and discusses data, research and policy challenges that emerged from this analysis. 14 p.
Practical Guide for Improving Gender Equality in Territorial Issues (IGETI): Land and Water Division Working Paper no. 18
20/11/2018
This Guide promotes adapting a convergent and people-centred gender approach towards increasing and improving the provision of goods and services from agriculture, forestry and fisheries in a sustainable manner while reducing rural poverty in different priority areas of FAO’s work. This includes gender equality, territorial development, legal aspects and natural resources management. 66 pp.
Technical Guide 3 of Toolkit on Gender-sensitive social protection to combat rural poverty and hunger: Integrating gender into implementation and monitoring and evaluation of cash transfer and public works programmes
15/11/2018
Composed of three Technical Guides, the Toolkit on Gender-sensitive social protection to combat rural poverty and hunger is intended to improve practitioners and development partners’ technical skills, and to integrate gender issues into the design, implementation and M&E of cash transfers and public works programmes. Technical Guide 3 of the Toolkit focuses on integrating gender into implementation and M&E. 52 pp.