Resources

23 Sep 2016
CCAFS/CARE International/ICRAF, 2014: Manual introduces participatory strategies and tools for research to guide the implementation of climate smart agriculture and efforts to achieve food security in rural communities, intended for NGO practitioners and program designers interested in diagnostic and action research for gender sensitive and socially inclusive climate change programs
20 Sep 2016
FAO: This tool offers a scroll-down list of legal indicators for gender-equitable land tenure. The indicators focus on the elimination of gender-based discrimination in the constitution, in inheritance, nationality, property rights and access to justice among others.
20 Sep 2016
FAO: Database provides examples of gender relevant questions and tables jointly developed by national statisticians and FAO for agricultural censuses undertaken in Africa between 1993 and 2006, in support of enhanced production and use of sex-disaggregated agricultural data.
TYPE: Data, Toolkits
20 Sep 2016
FAO, 2012: Booklet provides guidelines for field staff in mainstreaming a gender perspective during the design, implementation, operation and maintenance of water management projects for agricultural production; it is designed to be a rapid appraisal tool to identify the main gender-related problems and gaps that require attention during these stages of a project.
20 Sep 2016
FAO, 2013: Booklet identifies the main constraints faced by women and men in accessing, controlling and managing small livestock and dairy farming, and helps practitioners to design projects and programmes that address these challenges.
20 Sep 2016
CCAFS/CGIAR, 2015: Policy provides five policy lessons to support women farmers in relation to climate change, based on evidence from research in low- and middle income countries and offers guidelines for crafting gender-responsive climate policies at global and national levels.
20 Sep 2016
GenderInSITE, 2015: Fact sheet provides at-a-glance overview of gender issues in agriculture and food security.
TYPE: Data
19 Sep 2016
Asian Development Bank/Australian Aid, 2013: Toolkit presents a menu of gender equality outcomes, results, and indicators that may be selected or adapted by development practitioners to ensure that gender perspectives are incorporated into development initiatives, and to monitor and evaluate gender equality results.
TYPE: Toolkits
09 Sep 2016
FAO: Database provides gender and land-related statistics, national-level profiles of legal frameworks and policies and programmes to support the advancement of women or induce gender-differentiated access to land, and an interactive tool to visualize and compare gender-equitable land tenure policies across countries.
TYPE: Data
09 Sep 2016
BRIDGE, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2014: Report makes the case for a new, gender-aware understanding of food security, arguing that in order to truly achieve food security for all in gender equitable ways, responses need to be rights-based, gender-just and environmentally sustainable
TYPE: Reports
09 Sep 2016
FAO/Asian Development Bank, 2013: Report analyzes gender inequalities that constrain food and nutrition security in the Asia and Pacific region and recommends priority interventions that would enhance food and nutrition security
09 Sep 2016
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2012: Research explores what it takes for technology initiatives, specifically in the energy and agricultural sectors, to reach and economically benefit women in developing countries through market-based strategies that have the potential for achieving scale and financial sustainability
09 Sep 2016
FAO, 2015: Infographic shows why women are important to agriculture, where gender gaps in agriculture exist and what the impacts of these gap are
TYPE: Data
09 Sep 2016
World Bank/FAO/IFAD, 2009: Sourcebook combines descriptive accounts of experiences in investing in agriculture with practical operational guidance on utilizing gender-inclusive agricultural growth and rural development as a high-impact source of poverty reduction
TYPE: Reports
09 Sep 2016
FAO, 2011: Report presents evidence on women’s contributions to and constraints in agriculture, demonstrates the economic and social implications of the gender gap, evaluates interventions to reduce the gender gap and recommends practical steps that national governments and the international community can take to promote agricultural development by empowering women.
TYPE: Reports