FAO Calls for Gender-Inclusive Reforms in Latin America’s Agri-Food Systems

This limited presence, however, as highlighted by Mujeres en Hospitality, “does not respond to a lack of capacity or preparation, but rather to a transformation that is still progressing slowly in our sector.” Therefore, according to the same sources, “although it is true that there are still few women who hold these positions, the solution is certainly not to dispense with them in the forums of greater importance. On the contrary, we consider i…

In Rosario, during the last edition of the Fertility Symposium 2025, the slogan that decorated the panels and served as a slogan for the meeting had to do with nutrition, but not only with soils: “Nutriting the soil, feeding the future.” One of the international guests to the event, however, came to lower this concept to land. And it did so with all the power of those who represent a global organism, but also with the sensitivity of those who kn…

FAO Calls for Gender-Inclusive Reforms in Latin America’s Agri-Food Systems

Women make up more than a third of the workforce in agri-food systems across Latin America and the Caribbean, yet they continue to face systemic barriers that limit their access to resources, decision-making, and economic opportunity, according to a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The regional report,

News on the Day and the Hour Latest News Today A new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warns that rural women in Latin America and the Caribbean continue to face structural barriers in access to land, productive resources and decision-making, and calls for changes in agro-food systems with a transformative gender approach. Women represent 36% of the workforce in the agri-food systems of Latin America an…

A new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warns that rural women in Latin America and the Caribbean continue to face structural barriers in access to land, productive resources and decision-making, and calls for changes in agro-food systems with a transformative gender approach.