Publications
From land and water | Recipes from women pastoralists, producers, fishers and farmers
07/09/2026
Published during the International Year of Woman Farmer and the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists, this cookbook celebrates the women behind the recipes, highlighting the skills, traditions and innovations that nourish communities and support more sustainable agrifood systems. 152 p.
Sowing stories, cultivating equality | Not my food: The changing face of food (By Kanangwa Hamuyamba Newlove, Zambia)
01/09/2026
A childhood refusal to eat meat sends Kanangwa searching for what she calls “real food”, beginning a relationship with growing food that follows her into adulthood. Years later, she builds an organic farming business near Lusaka, Zambia. Met with mockery and scepticism, she keeps going. 10 p.
Sowing stories, cultivating equality | The abandoned seed that germinated: Cast out at sixteen, a Ugandan girl finds her way back through beekeeping and brings other women with her (By Rebecca Akullu, Uganda)
01/09/2026
Pregnant at sixteen, Rebecca is banished to a grass-thatched hut and told to fend for herself. Hawking clothes from market to market, she saves what little she can until, two years later, she finds her way back to school. A job at a bee farm leads her to her calling in beekeeping and to other young mothers who, unlike her, had not been given a second chance. 10 p.
Sowing stories, cultivating equality | Seeds of dignity: From struggle to global food sovereignty (By Zeinab Almoumani, Jordan)
01/09/2026
After losing her mother who worked for years in the fields under the Jordanian sun, Zeinab promises to stand beside the women who work the land. She becomes the founder of a women’s cooperative that grows into a movement. After two years of legal disputes, she secures recognition for women farming leased land and later wins the right - during a live national television debate - to establish the first union for women farmers. 10 p.
Assessing dairy’s role in women’s empowerment: A systematic review
01/09/2026
The purpose of this paper is to review the available evidence on the impacts of dairy production on SDG5, Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women and Girls. Results show that dairy development can contribute to women's empowerment, but the effects are generally modest. 64 p.
Sowing stories, cultivating equality | Pumpkin porridge: A mother fights hunger and for her rights by bringing back the local foods (By Masudio Margaret Eberu, Uganda)
01/09/2026
In northern Uganda, the loss of indigenous seeds and increasingly erratic rains leave many families struggling to produce enough food. Through a women’s rights programme and farmers’ associations, Masudio revives neglected local foods, runs cookery demonstrations for youth. 9 p.
Sowing stories, cultivating equality | When the leaves began to fall silent: A young woman in Fontem, watches a disease take the crop that fed her family and decides to act (By Kungang Ambotaba Nora, Cameroon)
01/09/2026
In Fontem, Cameroon, Kungang watches a disease slowly destroy the cocoyam that has fed families for generations and provided women like her mother with income and independence. When her mother stands in a dying field and asks how she will feed her children, Kungang cannot accept the loss as inevitable. 10 p.
Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment in the Context of Food Security and Nutrition (Pocket essentials)
01/09/2026
The guidelines explore and address the systemic barriers and the multiple challenges that women and girls face in food security and nutrition, providing entry points and a comprehensive framework for stakeholders to create more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable food systems that benefit everyone. These pocket essentials introduce the guidelines' nine focus areas. 26 p.