We are happy to present a Special Issue on the recently-held 8th Global Conference on Gender in Aquaculture & Fisheries- Shaping the Future: Gender Justice for Sustainable Aquaculture and Fisheries (GAF8). Held over three days, from 21 – 23 November 2022 in the city of Kochi in the coastal state...

In November, 2022, the city of Kochi in the southern Indian state of Kerala, marked a milestone in the history of gender and fisheries when it played host to the 8th Global Conference on Gender in Aquaculture & Fisheries- Shaping the Future: Gender Justice for Sustainable Aquaculture and Fisheries (GAF8)....

The 17th edition of the Global Gender Gap Report 2023, published by the World Economic Forum, states that gender parity, globally, has recovered to pre-COVID 19 levels, with regional and national differences. Iceland remains the most gender-equal country; the European region surpassed North America in terms of highest gender parity,...

Purnima Meher is a staunch advocate of women fishworkers in the coastal state of Maharashtra in India. Purnima, who was born into a fishing community, is a postgraduate in Sociology from the prestigious SNDT University, Pune, and has worked as a social activist in her home state of Maharashtra for...

This work was part of the CGIAR Gender Platform and the CGIAR Initiative on Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia and North Africa.  A groundbreaking new research strategy identifies priorities to advance gender equality in agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for adapting and building resilience to climate change.   The newly...

Este policy brief plantea los alcances, desafíos y posibilidades que tiene el ámbito de la pesca en relación a la inclusión de género. El texto, además, presenta seis testimonios de mujeres pescadoras y vinculadas con las actividades conexas, que grafican los desafíos que aún se mantienen en el trabajo en...

In this video, How I Build Soil in My Garden, Nasira Habib explains how nature works to provide nutrients to plants. She also shares her experience of hot and cold composting. Additionally, she tells about the compost water extract.

The documentary film about the steadfastness of Palestinian women farmers in  Gaza/Palestine reflects the continued struggle of urban and peri-urban women agripreneurs to restore food sovereignty and face challenges. These activities of the Urban Women Agripreneurs Forum (UWAF) come as an extension of the partnership project between the Gaza Urban...

The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest showcases the latest contents uploaded in the FFKP to provide its readers with relevant and up to date information on family farming main themes such as agroecology, smallscale fisheries, pastoralism, indigenous people, and more.

This course has been designed to explain how to use the Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator, with a view to contributing to improved diets among nutritionally vulnerable women of reproductive age.

The number of hungry people in the world increased to 828 million people in 2021, an increase of about 46 million since 2020 and 150 million since the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to a United Nations report. These figures show that the world is not on track...

La Alianza del Pacífico (AP) es una iniciativa de integración regional conformada por Chile, Colombia, México y Perú que fue anunciada el 28 de abril de 2011, y establecida el 6 junio de 2012 durante la IV Cumbre Presidencial, efectuada en Cerro Paranal, Antofagasta, Chile, con la firma por parte...

Sin lugar a duda, la agricultura juega un papel importante en el desarrollo económico y social de los países andinos por su importancia socioeconómica, en la seguridad alimentaria y por su potencial para contribuir a un crecimiento más inclusivo y sostenible. Una actividad milenaria que ha moldeado la forma de...

Conventional gender-sensitive methodologies that tend to focus on treating the symptoms of gender discrimination, such as women’s unequal access to resources and benefits, without addressing the structural determinants of gender inequality, have repeatedly failed to achieve long-standing and transformative impacts. Discriminatory gender norms and roles, unequal power relations and social structures...

Guía básica de aprendizaje: Camino hacia la igualdad de género en tiempos de cambio climático, es una guía para promover prácticas de igualdad y equidad de género en la implementación de módulos forestales, agroforestales y silvopastoriles que forman parte del proyecto "Resiliencia climática en los ecosistemas agrícolas de Cuba" (IRES)....

Land ownership in The Gambia is a complicated issue. It lives at the intersection of traditional customs, legal processes, competing needs, and momentum from the public sector and local NGOs towards more equitable governance.  Many women face significant disadvantages in owning land due to long-standing customs that govern land distribution within...

Este video relata los testimonios de las Ganadoras de la XIV Edición de los Premios de Excelencia a la Innovación para Mujeres Rurales 2023. Los premios de excelencia a la innovación de mujeres rurales han constituido una de las líneas de reconocimiento de la Administración General del Estado al trabajo, proyectos y...

In line with its transparency and monitoring requirements, the European Commission launched today an online dashboard presenting the targets set at national level by each Member State in its approved CAP Strategic Plan, as well targets at EU level. By exploring the interactive dashboard, users can find out for example about the...

Para conmemorar el Día Internacional de la Mujer, celebrado el 8 de marzo, la Red Latinoamericana de Mujeres Algodoneras y el proyecto +Algodón del Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasil-FAO promueven el evento virtual Mujeres del algodón: empoderamiento económico para cadenas de valor con enfoque de género trasformador, el día 24 de marzo (viernes),...

When Suzana Hamimu Kaleju began working as a fish processor 30 years ago in the port of Kigoma, she used to lay the sprat, a type of herring, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika before selling her dried fish in local and regional markets. They would get dusty or sandy so...