While women farmers produce between 60  and 80 percent of all food in developing countries, legal and customary laws and practices have historically limited their ability to fully access and control the land and natural resources they rely upon to...

The Government of the Kyrgyz Republic recently adopted a Law on Organic Production. This represents a major achievement in supporting transformative and sustainable agri-food systems.  This Law is the result of a long-term, participatory law-making process supported by the Development Law...

Source: Parliamentary alliances website FAO engages with African member states as they look to improve gender equality in agrifood systems On 13 March 2023, FAO’s Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division, Regional Office for Africa, and Development Law Service addressed the Gender...

Rome, 13 March 2023 For the first time, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) featured among the international institutions visited by the Nippon Foundation Fellows, as part of their capacity building and training programme at the International...

On 7 March 2023, the Executive Director of the National Institute of Student Welfare (INABIE) of the Dominican Republic, Mr Victor Castro, accompanied by a delegation from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), submitted a bill...