Websites

• UN Women
• FAO:
  • Women in Agriculture
  • Women and Decent work
• UNIDO:
  • Working with women traditional communicators in The Gambia to boost local production
  • Women's leadership in Indonesia’s modern seaweed processing industry
  • Women promoting agro-product safety along the value chain in rural China
  • Young Tunisian entrepreneur unlocks opportunities in the natural and organic cosmetics industry

Publications and reports

• Declaration of the International Day
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Declaration of 2026 International Year of the Woman Farmer
• Rural women at work: bridging the gaps (ILO)
• Empowering Women in the Rural Economy (ILO)
• Empowering rural women, powering agriculture (FAO)
• Good practices for integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment in climate-smart agriculture programmes (FAO)
• Women’s access to rural finance: challenges and opportunities (FAO)
• The Unjust climate: summary (FAO)
• The Status of Women in Agrifood systems: overview (FAO)

Interactive experience

In agrifood systems, not everyone's experience is equal

Women play a vital role in our agrifood systems. But their working conditions and emmunity, the institutions, and the broader society.conomic opportunities are influenced by gender inequalities within the household, the community, the institutions, and the broader society.

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.