International Day of Rural Women 2025
International Day of Rural Women, celebrated every October 15, was established in 2007 by the UN General Assembly to recognize their essential contribution in rural areas and to advance gender equality in the countryside.
Rural women represent a quarter of the world's population, and their work ensures half of the planet's food supply, making them fundamental to improving food security and combating poverty. Indeed, the UN estimates that if they had the same access to productive resources as men, "agricultural yields could increase by 20 to 30 percent, feeding between 100 and 150 million people."
Women are often at the forefront of the fight to protect the environment and combat climate change, implementing sustainable farming practices, developing resilience strategies in their communities, and launching reforestation and restoration initiatives. However, they are also the ones most affected by the impacts of climate change.
State of the art on care in rural contexts in Latin America and the Caribbean
Care from rural contexts – InfoCLACSO of December 14, 2023
Recovery with gender equality and climate justice
Rural perspectives on multiple crises and diverse alternatives in Latin America
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Policies and Lines of Action (PLA)
Good living for indigenous women in the Colombian Amazon
CLACSO Working Groups
- Agricultural work, inequalities and rural life
- Critical studies of rural development
- Bodies, territories and feminisms
- Ruralities and political transitions in Central America and Colombia
- Political Agroecology
