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Gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment: Differentiated pathways out of poverty Status, trends and gaps

Gender equality is an essential component of sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction. Equitable access to more and better jobs in rural areas enable rural women to become effective economic actors and engines of growth; as well as to produce or aquire the food, water, fuel and social services their families need. Indeed, the quality of the care mothers are able to give to their...

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Posted on : 05/11/2013
Tackling Gender-Based Violence After 2015

This high-level moderated armchair discussion explores why gender, specifically gender-based violence, should be a standalone goal in the post-2015 framework.

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Posted on : 05/11/2013
Women in motion

Women play an important role in the global ricesector as both paid and unpaid family labor. Inmany parts of Asia, women contribute at least half of the total labor input in rice production, performing backbreaking tasks such as transplanting and weeding. After harvest, it is usually the women who take care of seed storage and processing of rice (drying, milling...

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Posted on : 03/11/2013
GFAR supports the push for a Gender and Youth Strategy in the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Dryland Systems
At its second meeting in Addis Ababa (16 September 2013) the Steering Committee of the CRP Dryland Systems took the decision to elevate the issues of gender and youth so that they are directly addressed as an Intermediate Development Outcome for the program. The decision was actively promoted and supported by Harry Palmier, representing GFAR on the Steering Committee and Jennie Dey De...
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Posted on : 22/10/2013
A tool for gender-sensitive agriculture and rural development policy and programme formulation

The purpose of these guidelines is to provide guidance on how FAO and national ministries of agriculture can support and use CEDAW at the country level as a tool for policy development and programming to achieve equality between men and women in agriculture and rural development.

Posted on : 22/10/2013
Prof MS Swaminathan: Walking our talk on gender in agriculture

In this video message, Prof. MS Swaminathan, Patron of the Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP), underlines the importance of working together for women`s rights in agriculture. He emphasizes that women are the managers of food security at the household level, they...

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Posted on : 21/10/2013
Join e-discussion on Unpaid Care Work and Rural Women

In commemoration of the International Day of Rural Women (15 October) and the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 October), UN Women is hosting an e-discussion on "Unequal unpaid care work keeps rural women poor and violates their rights - how do we respond?" on its Knowledge Gateway for Women's Economic Empowerment.

The discussion will run from 15 to...

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Posted on : 18/10/2013
Preparatory Technical Meeting to the Joint FAO/WHO Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2)

Joint FAO/WHO Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), PREPARATORY TECHNICAL MEETING , FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy,  13-15 November 2013

The meeting will discuss in successive sessions:

  • Nutrition challenges and changing food systems: global and national perspectives
  • Policies for nutrition-enhancing...
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Posted on : 18/10/2013
Rural women feed the world, but cannot feed themselves

Source: devex

By Stephen Hall

A joint post with Ranjitha Puskur, senior scientist for policy, economics, and social science at...

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Posted on : 17/10/2013
Gender transformative approaches and value chain development

Source: CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish

The current widespread recognition of the importance of integrating gender into development is reflected in the growing prominence of gender strategies for research and development organizations, the emergence of compelling approaches for gender integration, and...

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Posted on : 16/10/2013

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