Access to decent employment is one of the most effective ways for rural people to lift themselves out of poverty. This article presents a number of facts taken from the new UN interagency report: "Gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment: Di

Women in agriculture play a vital role as agents of food security and rural economic growth, but often endure poor working conditions and receive limited recognition for their contributions. The International Day of Rural Women takes place each year on Oc

Producers’ cooperatives help rural women in farming, fishing and forestry meet the special challenges they face, including gender inequalities.

Access to agricultural land emerged as the number-one source of gender inequality in national gender profiles compiled for the first time ever in Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Vietnam.

Improving social and economic conditions for rural people is one of the keys to tackling child labour. So is reducing the exploitation of girls and boys in agriculture. An FAO study in Ghana looks at the issue.

Evictions, confiscation of property and discrimination are among the experiences increasingly reported by widows and orphans in Mozambique. An FAO-commissioned report offers recommendations to secure women’s and children’s rights to property and inheritan

Chicken-raising collectives, water-harvesting systems and community-based savings and credit schemes are some of the strategies that women’s groups have used to boost food production and incomes, showing themselves to be indispensable in the fight against

粮农组织新设的数据库使人们注意到阻碍农村发展的一个主要因素－在获取土地方面普遍存在男女不平等问题。

最近来自非洲、亚洲和拉丁美洲的数百名农村妇女参加了关于粮食不安全及其影响的基层磋商会。部分观点如下…

生物能源与粮食安全之间的复杂关系以及世界碳排放限制不断收紧的背景下粮食和燃料需求增长带来的挑战

女农民种植低价值生计作物，可能不是因为她们喜欢，而是因为她们不能获取种植其他作物所需的资源

贫困往往促使妇女从事非农就业，这可能对其家庭的贫困状况产生重大影响。妇女能够在何种程度上从中受益取决于新增收入的分配方式

对小农来说，农业商品化的益处可能附带“巨大的经济和社会成本”

为支持妇女争取平等权利的斗争，非洲新的土地法律应包含明确和强制性的包容机制