FAO-Dimitra Clubs in the Niger have been crucial to ensuring women’s access to land and water, while contributing to nutrition, food security and gender equality, thereby reducing rural poverty.

With more than three-quarters of the world's extreme poor living in rural areas, finding ways to improve their livelihoods – on and off the farm – is key to FAO's work.

FAO Fishery Industry Officer Yvette Diei-Ouadi on women's pivotal role across the fish value chain, and in post-harvest processing in particular.

An FAO project to equip small fishing communities with the tools and know-how to dry fish on simple raised racks instead of on the sand has changed lives along the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Burundi.

An FAO project to equip small fishing communities with the tools and know-how to dry fish on simple raised racks instead of on the sand has changed lives along the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Burundi.