Gender

Success stories

FAO's work on gender equality and women's empowerment at country level
12/11/2009
Women often migrate to work as labourers. But men, being usually the sole owners of the land, consider themselves to be "farmers" and are less likely to adopt new livelihood strategies.
10/11/2009
FAO's Dimitra project uses participatory communication to improve the visibility of rural populations, especially women. Dimitra's partner in Kenya reports...
09/11/2009
A new FAO/IFAD joint programme aims at improving the effectiveness of anti-poverty operations through gender mainstreaming.
08/09/2025
This adapted training curriculum is one of many examples of how the JP GTA is working with various teams, units and divisions within FAO to embed gender transformative approaches in programming, policy dialogues, working modalities and institutional culture of the Rome-based Agencies.