Sophio joined FAO’s ENPARD programme, funded by the European Union and Sweden, to get hands-on training and learn a biological approach to pest management.

For generations, chickpeas have been at the heart of Lebanese cuisine. They are woven into the country's cultural identity, with domestic consumption averaging 3.25 kilograms per person per year.

The Tushauriane project was designed as a learning-oriented pilot. Its value lies in demonstrating how agribusiness training, social norm change, and digital tools can work together to address complex gender-related and productivity challenges.

Here are five countries where farmers are making leaps in agricultural livelihoods thanks to sustainable agricultural mechanization

In Myanmar, FAO helped establish a women-led savings and credit group, through which the women were able to start a small rice noodle production business in their community.

Nurcan threw herself into beekeeping. She also joined FAO training courses, which gave her tools that she immediately put into practice.

The Baka people are adopting new ways of ensuring food security by taking up farming and beekeeping. The Baka youth, in particular, embody their new commitment to agriculture and innovation, with modern beehives, sources of income and nutrition for their families. 

Türkiye’s Bursa black fig and Bursa peach are two standouts in a region known for its fruits and vegetables. They were awarded national geographical indication (GI) status in 2018 and 2019 respectively and European Union GI recognition in 2024. 

For Indira Rawat and her family, farming alone could not cover their expenses. So each winter, her husband would leave their home in Nepal for India to seek temporary work.

Loice is one of about 2000 farmers in Kilifi County learning through Tushauriane Schools, community-led “schools without walls” where farmers meet weekly to share ideas, test new farming methods and find solutions to common challenges.

Men and women like Katana and Kalama meet weekly to discuss farming, marketing, and household relations. In these sessions, learning goes beyond production, it becomes a dialogue about equality.

Implementing natural pest and disease remedies for greater climate resilience in Asia and the Pacific

Women weavers in Goenpa Kabab, a remote village in Bhutan’s mountain districts, have always made exquisite silk dresses. Now they are combining this tradition and modern techniques.

For the Xukuru Indigenous Peoples, caring for the Ororubá land is their sacred duty, blending cosmogony, biocentrism, ecosystems reading and Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge with state-of-the-art technology. 

Trained by FAO as part of the GCF-funded PEARL project, Commune Agriculture Officers are teaching members of the Eco Farm cooperative climate-resilient farming techniques and business skills to tap into premium markets for their vegetables.

“For us, the forest is sacred: from it we get our medicine, firewood, everything,” says Teodora Vera, a 55-year-old member of the Avá Guaraní, Indigenous Peoples’ community of Y’aka Poty. “The forest is our life.”

Iracema Da Luz Ferreyra’s community in Colonia Alegría, Argentina has seen the effects of deforestation and have awakened to the importance of trees for their lives and livelihoods.

When Zarnigor faced the daunting challenge of supporting her entire family on her own, she began beekeeping, a trade she learned from her father. 

Solar power and smart irrigation reinvigorate fields and lives in Angola

Initially seeking a different path, Ryoujin returned to Jeju and decided to become a haenyeo (or sea woman) like her mother and grandmother before her.