Publications
Pathways to empowerment: Advancing gender equality and social inclusion in forest and farm producer organizations
01/10/2026
Forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs) connect rural producers with the governance, market, financial and natural resources, and service systems that shape their livelihoods. Yet stronger organizations do not automatically deliver inclusive outcomes: women may attend meetings without shaping agendas, run enterprises without controlling budgets, or restore land without secure rights to it. 110 p.
Handbook on gender equality in agrifood systems
01/10/2026
This handbook underscores the critical role women play across agrifood systems and the persistent gender inequalities that limit their contributions, rights and opportunities. Despite being central to food production, processing, marketing and household nutrition, women continue to face discriminatory social norms, unequal access to land and productive resources, disproportionate unpaid care burdens and limited participation in decision‑making. 104 p.
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 | 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.