Rising above some initial difficulties, such as inconsistent supply of materials and strong competition from imports, the young businesswomen is living her dream and remains optimistic about her evolving business.

A #ZeroHunger world isn’t just about stopping people from going hungry, it is about ensuring that they get enough of the right kind of nutritious food to lead healthy productive lives.

FAO and WFP are working together to support rural farming communities who are gradually returning to their villages after being forced to flee.

As key partners to FAO’s ISPP project, the extension workers from the Ministry of Agriculture have trained the farmers in conservation agriculture techniques, nutrition-sensitive crop production and utilization and aspects of agribusiness.

Christine was one of 600 participants in FAO’s Farmer Field and Life Schools. Each group learned good practices for farming as well as some other important skills, such as financial literacy.

Challenging gender norms by providing equal opportunities for both men and women.

Barkissa Fofana research, a result of partnership between INERA and AAD programme, is one example of how the programme is working to make degraded land in the Sahel green and productive again.

Purity Karemi was enrolled in a FAO training as part of an agribusiness project. The programme targeted youth in the area and prepared them to work in commercial agricultural product.

Smallholder farmers gain visibility that enable them for better bargaining in the market and also facilitate the sharing of best practices and opportunities.

With the demand for milk and milk products estimated to more than double by 2020, and the high percentage of rural households living without electricity, biogas digesters can provide an effective, clean energy solution for families in Tanzania.

Through a nutrition education programme, indigenous women in Guatemala are reviving ancestral culinary traditions and fighting malnutrition at the same time.

Like many farmers in Senegal, Guilé Mané used to struggle through the dry season. Rainfall here can be very low and irregular, even in the rainy season.

“My life is so different now,” says 23-year-old Scofia Sadik Mandera, with a big smile on her face.

The Kanyi (a local name for a Sahel breed of goat), has long been the preferred breed among women herders of the Lake Chad Basin.

New skills, new hope: How a FAO Farmer Field School in Torit, South Sudan became a turning point for an elderly widow.

Displaced shouldn’t mean dismissed. In Iraq, FAO’s cash-based programmes support vulnerable men, women and families affected by conflict.

Thanks to a grant from the Swedish government, an ingenious FAO project, done in conjunction with Guatemala’s agriculture ministry, changed everything.

School gardening takes root in Kenyan refugee settlement.

The SOFIA highlights the country’s example by adapting the Voluntary Guidelines for the Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) in the legal and regulatory framework, by incorporating the situation experienced by Costa Rican fisherwomen and fishe

Farmers, families, schools work together to boost child nutrition.