Gender

Videos

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Gender equality and rural empowerment: Exchange of experiences in Guatemala and El Salvador
23/06/2011

This video documents gender mainstreaming initiatives and experiences and activities to strengthen the capacities of rural women in Guatemala and El...

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The State of Food and Agriculture 2010-11: Interview with Terri Raney
08/03/2011

FAO's 2010-11 edition of The State of Food and Agriculture report makes a powerful business case for promoting gender equality in agriculture. In this...

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Message from Hillary Clinton marking the International Women's Day Centenary
04/03/2011

In her message to the three Rome-based UN agencies (FAO, IFAD and WFP), the US Secretary of State emphasized the need to support women in agriculture,...

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Message from Jacobo Regalado marking the International Women's Day Centenary
02/03/2011

Jacobo Regalado, Minister of Agriculture for Honduras, says FAO's latest SOFA report is an important document that sheds light on many critical issues...

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Gender dimensions in land and water: Experiences from the field
25/01/2011

This video gives an overview of an FAO project in Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique and East Timor that works to increase men's and women's security of...

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Land and water: Rights and gender equity
24/01/2011

This video presents highlights from an FAO workshop that took place in Lisbon from 3-4 June 2010. The workshop helped to identify key lessons from an...

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Taking action to support rural women
23/12/2010

Marcela Villarreal, Director of FAO's Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division, explains why a high-level meeting of the UN Economic and Social...

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Exposure and Exchange Programme by African women leaders to the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), India
30/11/2010

This video was filmed drawing on the Exposure and Exchange Programme to SEWA, Gujarat, India, by a delegation of 9 African women leaders, held between...

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Empowered over their fields, empowered over their lives (2010)
19/08/2010

This documentary, produced by UNAIDS, examines how FAO's farmer field schools in Uganda are helping people in emergency settings face issues of food...