Plant Production and Protection

Publications

Thematic highlights
All publications
01/2022

This training of trainers (ToT) manual aims to provide insights into the operation, maintenance and basic repair of farm machinery. It provides an overview of the main concepts of equipment that can facilitate sustainable agriculture practices, with examples and guidelines on the topic.

Agricultural trainingCapacity developmentFarm equipementFarmers
01/2020

Gender equality is essential to achieve FAO’s mandate of a world free from hunger, malnutrition and poverty. The Organization recognizes that persisting inequalities between women and men are a major obstacle to agriculture and rural development

FAO PolicyGenderGender equality
01/2022

With the massive out-migration of men from the villages, women’s work has increased at both household and farm levels. Women thus face additional work burdens and challenges in securing their households’ food security and livelihoods.

FactsheetGenderSustainable Agricultural MechanizationWomen farmers
01/2020

There are 476 million indigenous peoples around the world, constituting 6.2 percent of the global population and, according to different sources, representing more than 19% of the extreme poor (ILO, 2019) of the world. Half of this population are women (approximately 240 million).

GenderIndigenous womenWoman empowerment
01/2023

Senegal has had extensive experience with the development and implementation of the farmer field school (FFS) approach across almost two decades.

Community empowermentFarmer Field SchoolsGenderGender equalitySocial inclusionWoman empowerment