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

As funding from Belgium will only cover the technical component, the main expected result of the project is that the 250 women organized in ten mothers’ clubs will be able to apply the agricultural techniques learned.

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.

Ms Mboya Ka, mother of five, who manages the Douli family cistern, explains how her life was before it was established.

The EWEA project aims to safeguard the livelihoods of rice farmers by providing them with irrigation systems and climate-resilient farm inputs.

Programme activities will contribute to strengthening women's empowerment and inclusion of women at all stages of implementation considering the social and cultural barriers rural women face in Yemen.

Information and Communication Technologies, like the ones chosen by Suzana, are long seen as drivers of rural development and are accelerating progress towards gender equality.

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

With the right tools, knowledge and inputs, rural women would significantly contribute to their families and the surrounding community’s food security and nutrition.

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

The FIRST Programme, with a network of policy officers embedded in the relevant ministries, is supporting governments’ efforts to improve food security through sustainable agriculture in over 30 countries, in Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan A

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

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

The new LPG stoves will allow families to safely cook without needing to gather firewood from depleted forests. They will also improve the safety of women and children, who risk gender-based violence and attacks from animals, when they collect firewood.

The report calls for implementing and scaling up interventions aimed at guaranteeing access to nutritious foods and breaking the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition.

Access to land and natural resources can mean the difference between having food and going hungry.

How digital apps and services are boosting rural employment.

More than 150 million boys and girls around the world lose their childhoods to child labour. 108 million of them are working in agriculture.

The digital revolution has changed the way we work, access information and connect with each other. It offers opportunities to those who can use the new technologies, but also presents new challenges for those who are left behind.

A recent webinar, organized by FAO’s Social Protection Team, discusses the importance of gender-sensitive social protection (GSSP) and key dimensions of the GSSP approach, as well as specific lessons learned from FAO’s work in Africa and Latin America.