Publications
Gender, Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises: Women and girls as agents of resilience
30/03/2017
This guidance note explores gender equality and women’s empowerment as a crucial aspect of FAO's work on food security and nutrition in protracted crises, and discusses practical measures in this regard, such as livelihood support for women and girls, reducing women’s workloads, ensuring protection from gender-based violence and equitable access to resources and services, and, more broadly, transforming gender relations. 28 pp.
Research on rural women’s economic empowerment and social protection (Quantitative report on Rwanda Vision 2020 Umurenge Public Works)
17/03/2017
This research focuses on the public works component of Rwanda’s government programme for poverty reduction and social protection. The research was based on a mixed method approach comprised of in-depth qualitative methods and quantitative surveys conducted in Rwanda in 2014. 58 pages
Armenia: Gender, agriculture and rural development (Country Gender Assessment Series)
06/03/2017
The Country Gender Assessment for Armenia aims to enable better informed, targeted and gender sensitive actions in agriculture and rural development. It discusses some of the major gender inequalities that need to be considered by policy makers and project managers according to available data, and identifies further research needs. 56 pp.
Towards gender-equitable small-scale fisheries
01/03/2017
This document provides a summary of the presentations, discussions, conclusions and recommendations of the “Expert workshop on gender-equitable small-scale fisheries in the context of the implementation of the SSF Guidelines” held in Rome, Italy, on 28–30 November 2016. 80 pp.
Understanding local customs to achieve the 2030 Agenda
01/03/2017
FAO and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH have been providing support to the Western Balkans region to promote progress on Gender Equality, with a focus on measuring the proportion of countries where the legal framework guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control. 12 p.
Gender equality, social protection and rural development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Insights from the region
01/03/2017
This collection of articles written by economists, sociologists, and gender specialists and practitioners from twelve post-Soviet countries in Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia, reviews and analyzes the issues that are at the intersection of gender equality, social protection and rural development in the region. 72 pp.
Gender assessment of dairy value chain: evidence from Rwanda
24/02/2017
Findings from this study, a gender assessment of the dairy value chain in selected sites in Rwanda, confirm that women’s empowerment is vital for sustainable dairy value chain development and that projects supporting dairy production need to increase efforts to be gender inclusive. The study provides country-specific recommendations for Rwanda, which also feed into a more general knowledge base on how to develop gender-sensitive dairy value chains. 76 pp.
Gender assessment of dairy value chains: evidence from Kenya
21/02/2017
Two-thirds of the world's poor livestock keepers are women, yet little research has been conducted in recent years on rural women's role in livestock keeping and the opportunities that livestock-related interventions could offer them. This report reviews gender and socio-economic aspects of the dairy value chain for small-holder producers, including employment issues. The objective of the study was to assess the extent to which gender inclusiveness can be built into the development 80 pp.