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Europe and Central Asia Gender Newsletter, December 2025 – Issue #20
No full textВ этом выпуске Информационного бюллетеня, посвящённого гендерной проблематике в регионе Европы и Центральной Азии, собраны аналитические материалы и истории с мест на фоне подготовки стран к Международному году женщины-фермера 2026. Среди ключевых событий – совещание региональных гендерных координаторов в Будапеште, где были утверждены конкретные шаги по укреплению гендерно-ориентированных действий. Новые гендерные оценки по Черногории и Таджикистану показывают, что женщины поддерживают сельское хозяйство, сталкиваясь при этом с ограниченным доступом к земле, финансам, услугам и участию в принятии решений. В выпуске представлены примеры практической работы: от обучения по уходу за животными для женщин в сельских районах Косово до отмеченного наградой киргизского документального фильма о женском лидерстве в пасторализме. Материалы из Испании, Украины, Грузии, Таджикистана, Турции и Узбекистана демонстрируют, как сельские женщины становятся драйверами перемен в своих сообществах
FAO Iran Newsletter, 2nd Semester 2025 – Issue #2
No full textThis newsletter aims to provide a snapshot of the key achievements, milestones, and ongoing efforts of FAO Iran from August to December 2025. It highlights collaborative initiatives between FAO and national partners in support of sustainable agriculture, climate resilience, food security, and rural development across the country. By documenting field activities, technical assistance, capacity building, and policy support, this publication not only informs stakeholders but also reflects FAO Iran’s continued commitment to promoting inclusive, science-based, and locally owned solutions for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life
Phase I: Early findings
No full textUnder the Emergency Food Security Project (EFSP), funded by the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a large‑scale seed commercialization initiative in Afghanistan.The new approach responds to challenges including liquidity constraints among farming households, seed price affordability for smallholders and weak, fragmented market linkages between farmers and domestic seed producers. These constraints are often more pronounced for women farmers, who face additional mobility and access barriers to agricultural inputs and services. The programme design explicitly incorporates flexible delivery arrangements to mitigate these barriers.Through a co-payment electronic voucher modality, farmers access certified wheat seed directly from Afghan Private Seed Enterprises (PSEs). In the initial phase, the project covers 50 percent of the seed cost, while farmers contribute the remaining balance, strengthening farmer ownership, stimulating demand, helping commercialize the seed sector, reinforcing domestic seed markets and enabling increased domestic production of wheat at macro level.The initiative is designed to reach 135 000 farming households across more than 20 provinces over three agricultural seasons. The entire process is powered by FAO’s Identification, Delivery and Empowerment Application (IDEA) digital platform, enabling biometric verification, transparent tracking, real-time monitoring and the creation of a comprehensive national record of participating farmers. This, in turn, facilitates future expansion and lays the groundwork for a potential farmers’ registry.This brief presents early findings of Phase I of the implementation
Roadmap 2024–2030
No full textThis Roadmap for the Lao People's Democratic Republic charts a path to mainstream biodiversity across agriculture, livestock, forestry, and fisheries. It addresses urgent threats like deforestation and climate change, proposing integrated, sector-wide solutions. By aligning biodiversity conservation with economic development, the document calls for collaborative, transformative action. The goal: a resilient, biodiverse country where people and nature thrive together
Resilience and behaviour change assessment in Malawi in the districts of Mangochi, Ntcheu and Balaka
No full textThis factsheet presents key findings from surveys conducted in Mangochi, Ntcheu, and Balaka between November and December 2023, using the Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of Climate Resilience of Farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP+) methodology—a tool developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to assess the resilience of smallholder farmers at the household level. Implemented in Malawi as part of the Drylands Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (DSL-IP), this assessment contributes to achieving Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) across eleven countries in Africa and Central Asia by addressing common challenges through innovative, income-generating solutions.The document provides an overview of resilience scores across 21 key modules, covering environmental, economic, social, and governance domaines. It also explores insights from the behaviour change assessment, identifying barriers and motivators that influence the adoption of targeted sustainable practices within the project landcape —including the cultivation of pigeon pea, intercropping, and the utilization of pea stems as fuel material, along with broader sustainable land and forest management practices
