Publications
Scaling-Up Gender-Responsive Rural Development Interventions
01/11/2016
The Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women is led by FAO, the IFAD, UN Women and WFP. This overview discusses key aspects of the Joint Programme, including goals, potential for upscaling, and lessons learned. 2 pp.
Public Works and Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment: Rwanda’s Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (Info Brief)
04/10/2016
This brief summarizes findings of the first PtoP case study on rural women’s economic empowerment, focusing on the public works component of Rwanda’s Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP), the government’s flagship programme for poverty reduction providing countrywide social protection. The research involved a mixed method approach comprising in-depth qualitative methods and quantitative surveys conducted in Rwanda in autumn 2014. 4 pp.
Gender and Rural Advisory Services Assessment Tool (GRAST)
01/09/2016
Female farmers, who make up on average 43 percent of the agricultural labour force, face gender-specific barriers which limit their agricultural productivity compared with that of men. These constraints include lack of access to rural advisory services (RAS) and producers’ organizations. Improving women’s access to RAS can help close the gender gap in agriculture by making information, new technologies, skills, knowledge, and other productive resources more accessible to female farmers. 4 p.
Agricultural mechanization: A key input for sub-Saharan African smallholders
01/09/2016
This paper is specifically about agricultural mechanization and the opportunities it provides for sustainable intensified production, value addition and agrifood value chain development, in addition to the inherent opportunities for improved local economies and livelihoods. 55 p.
Mainstreaming Gender Into Forestry Interventions in Asia and the Pacific a training manual
23/07/2016
This training manual has been developed as part of a regional project on mainstreaming gender into forestry during 2013-2015 and aims to support capacity development and experiential learning to gain deeper understanding of gender issues with the intent of promoting socially inclusive forest management through gender mainstreaming. 142 pp.
The Impact of Gender Policy Processes on the Right to Food: the Case of Cambodia
18/07/2016
This study identifies possible approaches for the development of activities on the right to food in Cambodia, using the gender policies and initiatives now at work in the country as an entry point. The analysis takes into account the Cambodian legal framework in relation to food security, national policies in matters related to food security, and social protection and gender policies for promoting the advancement and empowerment of women. 74 pp.
Use of mobile phones by the rural poor: gender perspectives from selected Asian countries
13/07/2016
Mobile phones have been shown to contribute in various ways to rural development, from reducing information asymmetry, improving functional networks, to increasing access to services and finance. Yet a digital gender divide exists, and the answers to questions regarding differential access and use of information and communication technologies are mostly inconclusive. This study tries identify the information needs of the rural poor with gender dissagregated statistics. 68 pp.
Agri-Gender Statistics Toolkit
08/07/2016
A methodological tool and guide prepared under the “Strengthening national capacities for production and analysis of sex-disaggregated data through the implementation of the FAO GASF” project, which targeted national statistical offices and ministries of agriculture in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkey, in order to assist in developing gender-sensitive statistics on the agricultural and rural sector, to assess the status of rural populations 56 pp.