Success stories
FAO's work on gender equality and women's empowerment at country level
Clean energy solutions in Tanzania
13/12/2018
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.
Feeding future generations with recipes from the past
06/11/2018
Through a nutrition education programme, indigenous women in Guatemala are reviving ancestral culinary traditions and fighting malnutrition at the same time.
More water, new hope: A woman farmer in rural Senegal
25/10/2018
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.
In a Kenyan refugee camp, farming is the path to self-sufficiency
13/09/2018
“My life is so different now,” says 23-year-old Scofia Sadik Mandera, with a big smile on her face.
Goats help power the engine of recovery for women in northeastern Nigeria
11/09/2018
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
21/08/2018
New skills, new hope: How a FAO Farmer Field School in Torit, South Sudan became a turning point for an elderly widow.
Cash-based programmes: Empowering women and men in post-conflict areas of Iraq
15/08/2018
Displaced shouldn’t mean dismissed. In Iraq, FAO’s cash-based programmes support vulnerable men, women and families affected by conflict.
No boats needed for a Guatemalan fishing community
03/08/2018
Thanks to a grant from the Swedish government, an ingenious FAO project, done in conjunction with Guatemala’s agriculture ministry, changed everything.
Costa Rica promotes the development of sustainable small-scale fisheries
09/07/2018
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
Nourishing bodies and minds
20/06/2018
Farmers, families, schools work together to boost child nutrition.
Ethiopia’s youth find hope in agricultural entrepreneurship
05/06/2018
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.
Persistence and profits pay off
29/05/2018
Investing in female entrepreneurs improves livelihoods in Bangladesh.
From a small seed, a mighty trunk may grow
28/05/2018
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.
Linking gender and climate experts for adaptation planning in the Gambia
22/05/2018
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.
More market power for Kenya's farmers
15/05/2018
Since 2015, some 15,000 farmers have been joining forces to form groups and practice collective marketing.
Trying out the net: Supporting the fisherwomen of Nkombo, Rwanda
02/05/2018
“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.
Supporting vulnerable men and women farmers in northeastern Nigeria
11/04/2018
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.
Mexico’s Guatemalan refugees: where are they now?
27/03/2018
How Guatemalan refugees found peace and prosperity through farming
Saving livestock—and livelihoods—for the men and women pastoralists of Ethiopia
22/03/2018
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.