Gender equality and women's empowerment

Coalition for action on making food systems work for women and girls

The Gender Coalition was established to answer the call of the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (UN FSS) to accelerate the transformation of food systems by ensuring that as food systems transform, they do so in just, equitable, and inclusive ways by engaging and benefitting all women, girls, boys, and men, while advancing solutions and innovations reflected in the National Food System Transformation Pathways.

Gender equality and women's empowerment

Commit to Grow Equality

Commit to Grow Equality is a global process to enhance gender equality and women’s empowerment in agrifood systems through financing and partnerships. Bringing together governments, philanthropy, the private sector, United Nations and other multilateral agencies, civil society organizations and others, the process aims to unite key stakeholders to commit investments and partnerships to make agrifood systems work better for women, and transform them in the process.

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FAO at CSW68

11/03/2024 - 22/03/2024

This year, the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) will take place from 11 to 22 March 2024, under the priority theme ‘Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective’. The review theme for the session will focus on social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, as per the agreed conclusions of the sixty-third session.

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The unjust climate

FAO has produced a groundbreaking report: “The unjust climate. Measuring the impacts of climate change on rural poor, women, and youth”. It shows how climate change differently affects people, especially in rural areas . The report is based on over 109 000 households in 24 countries in 5 regions of the world, and 70 years of geo-referenced rainfall and temperature data. 

Investment in sustainable agrifood systems

The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems

13/04/2023

The new FAO report provides a comprehensive picture of the status of women not only in agriculture, but across agrifood systems. It presents extensive data and lessons learned about gender in agrifood systems, with particular focus on how women participate in and benefit from socio-economic opportunities.

Innovative and labour-saving technologies

FAO at the 67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67)

06/03/2023 - 17/03/2023
New York (hybrid event)

This year, the sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place from 6 to 17 March 2023, under the priority theme ‘Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.’ The review theme for the session will focus on challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls, as per the agreed conclusions of the sixty-second session.

Gender equality and women's empowerment

International Women’s Day 2023: Bridging the digital gender divide is essential for unleashing women’s potential in rural areas, say UN food and agriculture agencies

FAO-IFAD-WFP push to enhance rural women and girls’ digital capabilities and tackle the barriers they face to access technology to be equal contributors to our agrifood systems.

International Women's Day

International Women’s Day 2021

03/03/2021

This year’s theme “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world” celebrates the efforts of women and girls around the world to shape a more equitable future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.