FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa

Gender publications
2022

Élaborer un rapport d’évaluation genre des secteurs de l’agriculture et du dévéloppement rural est le fruit de la détermination de la FAO pour davantage d’autonomisation féminine dans le secteur agricole. Cette évaluation fait une analyse genre des secteurs de l’agriculture et du développement rural.

2021

Lebanese agriculture mostly relies on crops (fruit trees, olive trees, cereals and tobacco), livestock (sheep, goats and poultry) and dairy production. The agricultural sector contributed 3 percent to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and employed 3.6 percent of the active working population in 2018, constituting the main source of income for a significant part of the population.

2021

La Mauritanie est caractérisée par un indice élevé de l’exode rural, notamment masculin, vers les grandes villes. Celuici s’est traduit par l’accentuation de la féminisation de la pauvreté rurale.

2021

This Country Gender Assessment of Agriculture and the Rural Sector (CGA-ARS) in Egypt, conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2021, describes the specific roles and responsibilities that women and men perform in agriculture and documents the main gender inequalities that still affect the sector.

2021

This Country Gender Assessment (CGA, or Assessment), conducted in Palestine’s West Bank and Gaza Strip, examines existing gender roles and gaps between men and women in agriculture and rural development and explores practical needs, strategic interests and perspectives on gender equality.

2021

The Sudan has been undergoing major political and social changes since the December 2018 revolution and the end of the 30-year-long dictatorship. The directions and magnitude of these changes are being determined in the current challenging transitional period, which is loaded with internal and external threats, but also with numerous opportunities and possibilities.