Publications
Understanding the Role of Social Protection in Advancing Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment: Towards Sustainable Poverty Reduction
26/11/2015
This technical note proposes a framework for understanding the contribution of social protection to rural women’s empowerment, particularly how different social protection schemes contribute to this goal and what gaps need to be addressed by other rural services and livelihood interventions. 48 pp.
Gender and Land Statistics: Recent developments in FAO’s Gender and Land Rights Database
24/11/2015
Current efforts to streamline and compile international statistics on gender and land in a unified framework provide the entry point for expanded statistical content in the Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD). This Technical Note describes the statistics of the GLRD in detail. 35 pp.
Enhancing the potential of family farming for poverty reduction and food security through gender-sensitive rural advisory services
18/11/2015
This paper looks at the gender-differentiated barriers in access to rural advisory services (RAS) and the challenges of effectively targeting women family farmers when delivering these services. It provides examples of good practices in responding to women farmers’ specific requirements in supporting their economic empowerment, as well as recommendations for demand-driven, gender-sensitive RAS for improved food security and poverty reduction. 76 pp.
Moving Forward on Choosing a Standard Operational Indicator of Women’s Dietary Diversity
13/10/2015
Dietary diversity is crucial for vulnerable groups, in particular for women of reproductive age (WRA). Can dietary diversity be measured and used as a simple population-level proxy indicator collected via large-scale surveys to reflect the micronutrient adequacy of WRA’s diets? In 2005-2010, results from the Women’s Dietary Diversity Project (WDDP) on the relationship between food group diversity and micronutrient adequacy of the diets of WRA did not lead to the development of 226 pp.
Social Protection and Women's Empowerment: Rural Transformations Information Note #2
12/10/2015
Extending social protection to rural populations has great potential for fostering rural women’s economic empowerment. However, to tap into this potential, more needs to be done to make social protection policies and programmes more gender sensitive and to better align them with agricultural and rural development policies that address gender inequalities and sustainable poverty reduction. 2 pp.
Gender in Climate-Smart Agriculture: Module 18 for the Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook
12/10/2015
This latest module of the Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook provides a comprehensive menu of practical tools and guidance for integrating gender in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of projects and investments in climate-smart agriculture (CSA). 96 pp.
Rural Women's Economic Empowerment
09/10/2015
Reducing gender inequalities in the agricultural sector offers a critical development pathway for FAO to achieve its three global goals on hunger reduction, economic development (which includes the elimination of poverty) and the sustainable management of natural resources. This information note presents FAO's initiative on Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment, which focuses on strengthening the ability and commitment of member countries in implementing rural poverty reduction 2 pp.
Dimitra Newsletter 27
08/10/2015
The Dimitra newsletter outlines the Dimitra project’s most recent activities and achievements, especially the development and growing impact of the listeners’ clubs. This edition highlights the need to support rural youth, and the advantages of greater investment in children and young people, especially in regard to their important role in agriculture, hunger eradication and improving nutrition across the globe. 24 pp.