How digital apps and services are boosting rural employment.

FAO provides agricultural training as part of a larger initiative to build the resilience of Syrian refugees and their host communities in Turkey.

Obesity has become the greatest nutritional threat in Latin America and the Caribbean. Nearly one in four adults is obese.

Ministers sit with civil society and businesses to discuss cross-cutting issues on tenure governance.

Achieving gender equality and empowering women in agriculture is central to the FAO’s mandate.

Women’s skills in farming as a business have improved, and so has their income, filling the current local production gap and demand for vegetables, which were mainly imported from neighbouring countries before.

Through already established Water Users’ Associations, the project is also intensifying public awareness campaigns regarding safe water use in agriculture, food processing and preparation.

Held on the sidelines of CSW66, representatives from the UN Rome-based Agencies and UN Women strongly recommitted to implementing interventions to carry out holistic and integrated interventions for rural women.

The Near East and North Africa (NENA) Regional Office celebrated International Women’s Day with its staff on March 8, 2020.

Young farmer Ruramiso Mashumba is spearheading change in Zimbabwe.

Several low- and middle-income countries have demonstrated significant progresses in measuring and promoting women’s empowerment in agriculture.

In the past ten years there have been tremendous efforts to develop methodologies and tools to measure women’s empowerment in the context of agriculture in a comprehensive and standardized way.

FAO sub-offices in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh provinces also celebrated the day with the staff taking a gender equality pledge and celebrating the day committing to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women & girls.

Government officials appreciated FAO’s work in reducing hunger and enhancing the agri-food system by empowering women and closing the gender group.

66th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66): Side event by FAO, Mountain Partnership and Slow Food International

Panelists spoke openly against systemic practices that perpetuate gender inequalities and youth exclusion in climate dialogue.

Céleste is enthusiastic about playing a greater role in the management of her family’s fish farm.

Being granted land was one of the main achievements of the project. However, for Cecilia, one that was even more important was the change of mindset within her community.

The vegetable group allows them to make an income safely and with the support of other women. Agok and her fellow women feel strongly about the amount of support the group provides.

The essential role women contribute in small-scale is crucial but often overlooked.