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FAO’s work on gender in forestry

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 12p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Synopsis (short abstract) Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment is central to FAO’s mandate of eradicating hunger, malnutrition and rural poverty. The FAO Forestry Division (NFO) is strongly committed to ensuring the systematic integration of a gender perspective across its work. The Division promotes and implements gender responsive initiatives to support women resilience and participation in forest management, and ensures that comparative sex-disaggregated data are produced and disseminated through knowledge products. At policy and strategic level, the Forestry Division works closely with governments to support policymakers in their efforts to review and strengthen laws and legal frameworks in the forest sector to be more gender-responsive. This brochure shows how the different initiatives, programmes and projects of the FAO Forestry Division mainstream gender into their implementing activities and contribute to strengthening gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Statutory body / Meeting title FAO Committee on Forestry (COFO)

Language English

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