Guidance document
FAO, 2024
This Commitments Matrix presents overarching commitments and a series of thematic commitments, divided into five thematic areas and targeting three different stakeholder categories, available for stakeholders to associate with.
Brochure
FAO, 2024
This brochure presents the Commit to Grow Equality (CGE) initiative, a global process launched by FAO and a diverse group of partners to accelerate gender equality and women’s empowerment in agrifood systems through financing, investments and partnerships.
Full report
FAO, 2023
The report uses extensive new data and analyses to provide a comprehensive picture of women’s participation, benefits, and challenges they face working in agrifood systems globally. It shows how increasing women’s empowerment and gender equality in agrifood systems enhances women’s well-being and the well-being of their households, creating opportunities for economic growth, greater incomes, productivity and resilience.
Summary
FAO, 2023
This brief summarizes the key messages and findings of FAO’s report “The status of women in agrifood systems” which provides the latest data, lessons learned and recommendations for policy and decision makers about gender in agrifood systems.
Interactive story
FAO, 2023
Women play a vital role in our agrifood systems: as farmers, retailers, wage workers, entrepreneurs, and beyond. But their working conditions and economic opportunities are influenced by gender inequalities within the household, the community, the institutions, and the broader society. In this interactive story, we meet María, who recently started a part-time job at a local tomato canning factory, and her friend Oumar who works on a farm nearby.
Video
FAO, 2023
The status of women in agrifood systems report, the first of its kind since 2010, goes beyond agriculture to provide a comprehensive picture of the status of women working across agrifood systems— from production to distribution and consumption.
Background papers
FAO, 2024
This collection of background papers was prepared to inform several chapters of FAO’s report “The status of women in agrifood systems”.
Full report
FAO, 2024
This report assembles an impressive set of data from 24 low- and middle-income countries in five world regions to measure the effects of climate change on rural women, youths and people living in poverty. The data enable us to disentangle how different types of climate stressors affect people’s on-farm, off-farm and total incomes, labour allocations and adaptive actions, depending on their wealth, gender and age characteristics.
Summary
FAO, 2024
The brief summarizes the key messages and findings of FAO’s report “The unjust climate – Measuring the impacts of climate change on the rural poor, women and youth” which measures the effects of climate change on rural women, youths and people living in poverty.
Video
FAO, 2024
The unequal impacts of climate change on countries, communities, and individuals undeniably pose a critical global challenge. Despite contributing minimally to the climate crisis, low- and middle-income countries bear the brunt of the consequences, particularly in rural areas where people heavily rely on agrifood systems and natural resources for their livelihoods.
Policy document
FAO, 2024
These Voluntary Guidelines are the first inter-governmental and multi-stakeholder negotiated global policy agreement specifically focused on gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment within the context of food security and nutrition.
Brochure
FAO, 2024
This brochure provides an overview of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines, the first inter-governmental and multi-stakeholder negotiated global policy agreement specifically focused on gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment within the context of food security and nutrition.
Video
FAO, 2024
This video aims to inspire and mobilize action around the implementation of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment in the Context of Food Security and Nutrition by CFS Members and stakeholders at global, regional, and national levels.
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FAO. 2025. Commit to Grow Equality: investing in the future of women in agrifood systems – Progress report 2025. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd4123en
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