January 1, 2024GEM Digest of the Month - Published monthly since December 2009 Contents

Call for Youth and Adolescent Recommendations on Accelerating the Achievement of Gender Equality and the Empowerment of All Women and Girls by Addressing Poverty and Strengthening Institutions and Financing with a Gender Perspective. [...] Small-scale farmers are the backbone of food production, producing one-third of the world’s food and up to 70 percent of the food consumed in Africa and Asia, yet they are often cut off from the services they need to pull themselves out of poverty and food insecurity. [...] At the other end of the scale, the lowest share was recorded in the Italian region of North-West (45%), followed by Malta and the Italian regions of South and North- East (all 46%). [...] The guide focuses on the intersection of girls and women and the climate crisis, and the impact that it has on gender equality globally. [...] But for the benefits of a stable and inclusive market to be sustainable in the long term, the market system itself needs to be able to withstand, react, and transform in the face of climate change, conflict and other shocks and stresses.