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...

CCP 76 side event: Promoting women's participation in international agrifood trade- current practices, challenges and prospects for inclusive trade

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+

Gender Mainstreaming: Success stories of women's empowerment in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture (COFI side event)

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.