Challenging gender norms by providing equal opportunities for both men and women.

Barkissa Fofana research, a result of partnership between INERA and AAD programme, is one example of how the programme is working to make degraded land in the Sahel green and productive again.

Sanihan, like other beneficiaries of the project in the Ségou and Mopti regions, received training in good agricultural and pastoral practices as the project is linked to agropastoral field schools, and she is enrolled in a VSLA.

Purity Karemi was enrolled in a FAO training as part of an agribusiness project. The programme targeted youth in the area and prepared them to work in commercial agricultural product.

Smallholder farmers gain visibility that enable them for better bargaining in the market and also facilitate the sharing of best practices and opportunities.

With the demand for milk and milk products estimated to more than double by 2020, and the high percentage of rural households living without electricity, biogas digesters can provide an effective, clean energy solution for families in Tanzania.

Locally-made stoves reduce the health and safety risks for women and girls.

Through a nutrition education programme, indigenous women in Guatemala are reviving ancestral culinary traditions and fighting malnutrition at the same time.

Two-thirds of Sierra Leone’s population is involved in subsistence agriculture. Farmers — most of them women —operate in an informal and precarious system without any legal titles to their lands.

Like many farmers in Senegal, Guilé Mané used to struggle through the dry season. Rainfall here can be very low and irregular, even in the rainy season.

“My life is so different now,” says 23-year-old Scofia Sadik Mandera, with a big smile on her face.

The Kanyi (a local name for a Sahel breed of goat), has long been the preferred breed among women herders of the Lake Chad Basin. However, due to a nine-year long insurgency, goat ownership in northeastern Nigeria has declined significantly.

New skills, new hope: How a FAO Farmer Field School in Torit, South Sudan became a turning point for an elderly widow.

Displaced shouldn’t mean dismissed. In Iraq, FAO’s cash-based programmes support vulnerable men, women and families affected by conflict.

Thanks to a grant from the Swedish government, an ingenious FAO project, done in conjunction with Guatemala’s agriculture ministry, changed everything.

School gardening takes root in Kenyan refugee settlement.

Empowering rural women like Edwina Mukalay to make change in their communities.

The SOFIA highlights the country’s example by adapting the Voluntary Guidelines for the Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) in the legal and regulatory framework, by incorporating the situation experienced by Costa Rican fisherwomen and fishe

Farmers, families, schools work together to boost child nutrition.

Amiat initially migrated in the hopes of providing her family with enough income. Now, she has joined a poultry cooperative that allows her to support her family and remain in her home village.