Publications
Meeting our goals: FAO’s programme for gender equality in agriculture and rural development
01/01/2016
FAO recognizes the potential of rural women and men in achieving food security and nutrition and is committed to overcoming gender inequality, in line with the pledge to “leave no one behind”, which is at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda. The publication illustrates the consistent and sustained work of FAO towards gender equality and women’s empowerment, which are at the core of the Organization’s work to eliminate hunger and rural poverty. 77 p.
The Implications of Social Farming for Rural Poverty Reduction: Technical Workshop
18/12/2015
This report summarizes the workshop on The Implications of Social Farming for Rural Poverty Reduction, which explored the possible contribution of social farming to rural poverty reduction through rural women’s economic empowerment, decent rural employment creation and social protection. 40 pp.
A Glance at Gender: Newsletter for the Regional Office for Africa (June – July 2015)
03/12/2015
This edition highlights women farmers' access to and use of technology and innovation, improved seeds and fertilizers, and extension and financial services. It also discusses FAO's role in both supporting and bridging the gender gap in the agriculture value chain. 2 pp.
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.