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DocumentCommitments Matrix
Global Commitment to Enhance Gender Equality in Agrifood Systems through Financing and Partnerships
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No results found.FAO is launching a global commitment process to enhance gender equality and women's empowerment in agrifood systems through financing and partnerships. The process aims to unite Members, resource partners, private sector, UN Agencies, civil society organizations and others to commit investment and partnership for increased gender equality and women’s empowerment in agrifood systems. This draft Commitments Matrix presents five macro commitments and a series of thematic commitments, divided into five sub-categories and targeting three different stakeholder categories, available for stakeholders to associate with. This version is a draft for discussion with participants at the launch event on the sidelines of the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) in New York on 13 March 2024. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetAchieving gender equality by empowering women in agrifood systems 2023
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No results found.Despite their critical role in agrifood systems, millions of rural women face significant challenges to access resources, information, services and opportunities. They cope with excessive work burden and are underrepresented in institutions and decision-making processes. Moreover, they experience higher rates of food insecurity and are disproportionately affected by health, economic and environmental crises. Closing the gender gap in farm productivity and the wage gap in agrifood systems employment would increase global gross domestic product by 1 percent. This would reduce global food insecurity by about 2 percentage points, reducing the number of food insecure people by 45 million. FAO has extensive expertise in advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in agrifood systems and rural development to eliminate poverty and promote inclusive rural transformation for a better life. -
BookletWalking the talk
Learning exchange in Rwanda, July 2019
2022Also available in:
Women play an important role in food systems as producers, wage-workers, processors, traders, entrepreneurs, and consumers. It is therefore essential that the food systems transformation agenda takes full cognizance of their needs and priorities, so that they can contribute and benefit equally from interventions. In ECOWAS countries, women still lag behind in accessing land, finance, technologies, services and markets. Their voices are not equally heard in the elaboration of policies, programmes and investment plans in the agrifood sector as their representation in leadership positions remains lower than that for men. Walking the talk in Rwanda is the result of ongoing partnership with ECOWAS Network of Parliamentarians on Gender Equality, Investments in Agriculture and Food Security, and its Advisory Group made of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Oxfam and Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF) to advance gender equality in efforts to accelerate progress towards zero hunger. This report summaries the Learning Exchange that gave the ECOWAS Parliamentarians an exposure to the comprehensive Rwanda Model for gender equality and women’s empowerment in terms of governance, accountability, vision, and actions. it includes comments and reactions from some of the Parliamentarians.
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