Gender

Webinars and Events

3/ 12

2024

Hybrid Event, 03/12/2024

Inclusion is central to ensuring that agrifood systems are transformed to their full potential, leaving no one behind. On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, FAO, the Permanent Representation of the United Kingdom, Permanent Representation of Australia and the Permanent Representation of New Zealand, will host an event  that will explore the challenges and opportunities ass...

28/ 11

2024

Hybrid Event, 28/11/2024

Passcode: ERPDW2024+ 

22/ 11

2024

Hybrid Event, 22/11/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)’s Rural Transformation and Gender Equality division (ESP) will host the launch of Professor Naila Kabeer's latest book: "Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox". This timely event will highlight Bangladesh’s complex and often contradictory progress on gender equality, a phenomenon that challenges c...

30/ 9

2024

Hybrid Event, 30/09/2024

The purpose of the event is to celebrate the UNGA declaration of 2026 as the International Year of the Woman Farmer (IYWF), garner support from members and build momentum for action in 2026. Through the IYWF, the international community will raise awareness of the challenges women face in agriculture, including limited access to property rights, land tenure, training, credit, markets, and clima...

12/ 9

2024

Hybrid Event, 12/09/2024

The event will discuss the status of women’s participation in international agrifood trade, inform on current gender-responsive policy practices and development initiatives, and exchange on prospects and pathways to make agricultural trade more inclusive and socially sustainable.

Passcode: CCP76SE2024+

11/ 7

2024

Hybrid Event, 11/07/2024

This side event will showcase good practices while proposing actions and initiatives to foster gender equality in fisheries and aquaculture value chains. It will be designed to provide an overview of the work being conducted by Member States to support women's empowerment, therefore showcasing the efforts of these countries to achieve gender equality. 

11/ 6

2024

Hybrid Event, 11/06/2024

This event seeks to raise awareness of FAO’s global initiative ‘Commit to Grow Equality’ which is aimed at enhancing gender equality and women's empowerment in agrifood systems through financing, investments and partnerships. The event will include a high-level call to action; a presentation of the initiative, participation modality and ‘Commitments Matrix’; and a panel discussion featuring exp...

21/ 5

2024

Hybrid Event, 21/05/2024

The observance of the International Tea Day aims to raise awareness of the key role the sector plays in reducing extreme poverty (SDG1), fighting hunger (SDG2), empowering women (SDG5), supporting the sustainable use of the terrestrial ecosystem (SDG15), and in contributing to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This year, the event, inaugurated by FAO Director-Gener...