Investment Forum 2025 Thematic Session: The business case for investing in women and youth in agrifood systems

Hybrid Event, 15/10/2025

This Hand-in-Hand Initiative Investment Forum thematic session, supported by CGE, explored the business case for investing in women and youth as agents of agrifood systems transformation from the investor perspective.

Rome Nutrition Week 2025 - Women’s Rights and Empowerment in Agrifood Systems: A Driver for Nutrition and Maternal Health

Hybrid Event, 30/05/2025

This event highlighted the links between women’s empowerment, nutrition, and maternal and reproductive health in agrifood systems by showcasing effective policies, practices, and partnerships - including UN joint programmes.

RAP 2025 Gender Brownbag Seminar Series

21/05/2025 - 26/06/2025

FAO's Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) hosted a three-part Gender brownbag seminar series. This year’s sessions focused on 1) Gender mainstreaming at FAO, 2) Integrating gender-transformative approaches and 3) Facilitating technology transfer and innovation to reduce digital gender divide.

CGE CSW69 event: Making agrifood systems work better for women and girls

Hybrid Event, 12/03/2025

The Commit to Grow Equality initiative is hosting an event during the high-level week of the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) and Beijing+30 review in New York. During this event, CGE will present its first progress report, where selected partners will be given a space to feature their commitments to date; introduce its most recent set of new partners wh...

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

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...

UNITE Campaign -16 days of activism: Global crises and their impact on GBV

Hybrid Event, 28/11/2024

NAILA KABEER AT FAO|Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox

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...

COAG side event: International Year of the Woman Farmer – Empowering Woman Farmers to tackle hunger, poverty and climate change

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...