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.
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.
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.
Sowing stories, cultivating equality | Roots of resilience: How a friend's orchid, arriving six months after a baby was lost, grew into a women's cooperative in Saint James (By Audia Willie, Jamaica)
01/08/2026
Six months after losing her baby, a friend gives Audia a purple orchid. Caring for it gives her a reason to rise each morning, and slowly her veranda fills with green. Neighbouring women begin gathering there on Saturdays, bringing cuttings, seeds and stories of their own struggles. They plant kitchen gardens, share their harvests and eventually form a cooperative to sell together at the local market. 10 p.
Sowing stories, cultivating equality | My hands still know the soil: A woman farmer’s journey of resilience (By Beryl Oletha Seaton, Saint Kitts and Nevis)
01/08/2026
From childhood, Beryl found joy and belonging in the soil, and over the years farming became part of her identity and a refuge from everyday life. When an old injury left her unable to walk and she later lost her job, what frightened her most was the thought of losing the land she loved. Instead of asking whether she could continue, Beryl began asking what was still possible. 9 p.
Sowing stories, cultivating equality | The brittle stems: How a childhood spent among failing gardens led one woman into crop science (By Florence Adejole, Nigeria)
01/08/2026
As a child, Florence wandered into abandoned gardens, touching brittle stems and wilted leaves and wondering why the plants had died. Told that agriculture was beneath her, she chose crop science anyway. Years later, her research on compost and biochar takes her from laboratory to field, working with women farmers and searching for practical solutions for plant and soil health. 7 p.
Sowing stories, cultivating equality | The difference is small, but I can see it: How one farmer's careful coffee cherries changed a whole women's network on Mount Elgon (By Melanie Joyce Nabukwasi, Uganda)
01/08/2026
As an agricultural extension worker on the coffee farms of Mount Elgon, Melanie wondered why so much effort continued to yield little income. The answer came when she realized that the value of coffee depends not just on labor, but on knowledge. By teaching women farmers to select ripe cherries and improve their drying methods, she set in motion a transformation that at first seemed imperceptible. 10 p.
Sowing stories, cultivating equality |Counting sheep but still no sleep (By Anna Sperling, Italy)
01/08/2026
For two decades, Anna built her life around a small agropastoral farm in central Italy, deeply connected to the land and to the sheep she knew by name. When access to grazing land disappeared, she faced losing not only her livelihood, but a way of life, years of knowledge and part of her own identity. Refusing to let it all disappear, Anna has kept a small core herd and continues to preserve the skills and traditions she has nurtured over the years. 11 p.