Publications
Gender Asia Pacific Newsletter February 2019 - Issue #1 Empowering rural women through innovation
01/02/2019
This newsletter is addressed to FAO's staff and development partners as well as whoever is interesting in FAO's work related to gender equality and women's empowerment in the Asia-Pacific region. It provides background information regarding ongoing activities in specific countries and at the regional level on gender in line with FAO's Policy on Gender Equality and the Sustainable Development Goal number 5. 5 pp.
Sex-disaggregated data in agriculture and sustainable resource management
01/02/2019
This guidance document outlines the gender data gaps in agriculture. It also provides data sources to support the collection of sex-disaggregated data and indicators that can be used to measure the gender dimensions in agriculture. 48 pp.
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.