Publications
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.
Ensuring safe access to energy for all
01/09/2015
Almost three billion people globally rely on wood, coal, charcoal or animal waste as sources of fuel for cooking and heating. Collecting fuels – fuelwood in particular – is often women and girls’ responsibility and can be an arduous and burdensome task, and sometimes, outright dangerous.Unsustainable harvesting of the scarce wood resources further degrades the environment. 2 p.
Rural Women in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
22/07/2015
A new book from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reveals that rural women in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia often face the same hardships as their sisters in other regions of the world. Rural Women in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, published in hardcover this week and also available online, uses data to provide a better overview of the gender gap in agriculture and rural areas. 60 pp.
The impact of cash transfers on the economic advancement, decision-making and capacity of women
08/07/2015
Issued by the From Protection to Production programme, this policy brief considers the concrete benefits of CT schemes for women, particularly in the context of economic empowerment, economic advancement, decision-making power, self-esteem and social empowerment. 4 pp.