A new United Nations interagency report on the gender dimension of agricultural work says women still benefit less than men from rural employment and face new challenges due to the current economic and food crises.

Gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment: Differentiated pathways out of poverty

Policy briefs

• Gender-equitable rural work to reduce poverty and boost economic growth
• Investing in skills for socio-economic empowerment of rural women
• Rural women's entrepeneurship is "good business"!
• Agricultural value chain development: Threat or opportunity for women's employment?
• Women in infrastructure works: Boosting gender equality and rural development!
• Making migration work for women and men in rural labour markets
• Breaking the rural poverty cycle: Getting girls and boys out of work and into school