Amiat initially migrated in the hopes of providing her family with enough income. Now, she has joined a poultry cooperative that allows her to support her family and remain in her home village.

Investing in female entrepreneurs improves livelihoods in Bangladesh.

The community has also been very active and appreciative of Charity’s work. Local women are engaging now, more than ever, in forest and farming activities.

The workshop afforded key stakeholders an opportunity to challenge assumptions about what gender means and to exchange knowledge on how to link gender and climate change issues in practice.

Since 2015, some 15,000 farmers have been joining forces to form groups and practice collective marketing.

“I was motivated to fish because I saw fishermen making more money than I was. One day I decided to try out the net,” says Valeria Maniraguha, a 38-year-old mother of four children who started fishing in 2010.

After Aisa ya Maida lost her husband during an attack on her home in Magumeri, a Local Government Authority (LGA) in Nigeria's Borno State, she fled to Konduga, a neighbouring LGA, with her seven children.

With one failed rainy season after another, Hany Abdullahi Aaden was increasingly worried about the survival of her livestock.

How Guatemalan refugees found peace and prosperity through farming

In Ethiopia’s southeast region, livestock are essential for survival. “We were pure herders. We used to follow the water and grass,” said Mahabo Hassen, a female livestock owner from the outskirts of Warder, in Ethiopia’s Somali Region.

In Kenya, FAO and the European Union are supporting small-scale women farmers to grow more food and earn more from their crops by adopting conservation agriculture (CA), and by linking the farmers to markets.

Women and children are among those most vulnerable to food insecurity and malnutrition. This is no different in Mozambique where, according to the FAO Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition, 35% of the population is food insecure.

The story of Hanen Talbi, Sonia Mhamdi and Imen Chelbi.

"In the programme we are taught to take care of the small children. They have to eat enriched porridge," she says.

FAO’s Collect Mobile app is improving incomes and lives for men and women dairy farmers.

ICTs as drivers of rural women’s empowerment.

Women learn new skills to fight hunger and help their communities.

The purpose of FFS is not only to build the technical capacity of farmers but also to contribute to community development including gender equality and social inclusion.

FAO is working in over 50 countries, before, during and after crises to provide emergency assistance to those that depend on agriculture to survive.

An FAO climate-smart agriculture project is helping families in Nepal, like Ashmita’s, to improve their yields and livelihoods, giving them alternatives to migrating abroad.