 Unfortunately, and we need to finish a few minutes earlier because of the plenary session that should start sharp at nine. Allow me to introduce myself first. I am Dono, Dona Durezakova, Regional Gender and Social Protection Advisor to FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia. Thank you for being with us at this early hour. I would like to invite Mr. Nabil Gangi, Deputy Regional Representative and Officer-in-Church of FAO Office for Europe and Central Asia to open this session without any further delay. Mr. Gangi. Thank you, Dono. Good morning, dear panelists, dear esteemed guests. Great pleasure to welcome you all to Budapest and actually to our European Commission on Agriculture, first-side event on gender and advancing gender equality in the region's agri-food systems. Gender and many ask us time and time again, why gender? Have you changed your theme? And we say, no, we're still talking about food and alleviating poverty. However, to in order to attain efficient, resilient and nature-positive agri-food system, it is inseparable from the empowerment of women, particularly rural women, and closing the gender gap. 70% of the world food production is provided by family farmers. And women play a key role in this, directly and indirectly, whether as paid or unpaid laborers on their own farms, contributing also as processors, agri-entrepreneurs, production and food consumers. As such, they are the main contributor to food security and poverty reduction. And this is why we come time and time again and talk about gender. Throughout the world, rural women work longer hours and are more likely to suffer from poverty and face a number of challenges related to gender, reducing their access to agricultural assets and social benefits and limit their potential and the potential of food production as economic agents and their capacity to reap the full benefits of their work. In Europe and Central Asia, as in lots of parts of the world, women are becoming the backbone of societies and play important role in sustaining families and rural communities. Average gender-related indicators in the region are the most advanced globally, indeed. And let's again come and ask us, why do we come back to gender, particularly in the region that is quite advanced? However, social practices and regulations often impede women, including in our region, impede women in exercising their rights and gender-based discrimination persists. Despite rural women's high education levels and high economic activity rates, they enjoy less access to productive assets, services and decent employment opportunities. Rural women in the region have less access to innovative technologies and agriculture approaches when compared to men, which contributes to the gender pay gap with women earning between 60 to 85% of men's salaries and having lower access to decent jobs and off-farm employment. The status of rural women is exacerbated by a double and triple burden of domestic and reproductive work, which overwhelmingly falls on women's shoulders, hence the term time poverty, which significantly limits rural women's life choices and opportunities for engaging in paid economic activities, education and professional development. Closing the gender gap will generate significant gains for the agriculture sector and for the society and not only for agriculture sector. The state of food agriculture in 2011, flagship publication of FAO demonstrates for the first time that should women have the same access to productive resources as men, farm years could increase by 20 to 30%. The new FAO report on the status of women, which was launched in April, 2023 this year, stated that the closing the gender gap, there could be a one-off increase in global GDP by approximately one trillion US dollars. It's a 1% increase in global GDP and hence the number of food insecure people could be reduced by 45 million. And that is why we talk time and time again about gender. This is the reason we have not changed our theme. Our theme is food and elevating poverty, yet gender is a key element to us reaching this objective. Study after study has shown that there is no effective development strategy in which women are marginalized. No, but they have to play a central role and there's a positive correlation between national GDPs and gender equality levels. FAO recognizes that persisting inequalities between women and men are a major obstacle to agriculture production and rural development. Access to knowledge, information, technical skills can empower women economically by allowing them to acquire productive assets, improve their financial literacy and increase their decision-making power. When this happens, women make better investments in nutrition, health and education, not only for themselves, but for their families, leading to an improved all-round well-being and quality of life for themselves, their families and their communities. FAO's regional office for Europe and Central Asia and its country offices throughout the region are committed to assist women smallholders by engaging them in more profitable value chains and providing support to women's businesses and agriculture practices. Through better access to land, bank loans, productive resources, markets and business development services, this is a key for more fair, for a fairer, equitable and productive agri-food system with lasting positive effects on societies. Allow me to express my appreciation to these team panelists for accepting our invitation today. We are looking forward to hearing from your valuable experiences and thoughts that would undoubtedly help us in strengthening our partnerships and assist member states in the region to jointly advance these important themes, despite persistent, all that emerging challenges, conflicts and crisis in the region. So on behalf of FAO, allow me to express my gratitude to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Turquia, to the Union of Hungarian Women and the Nielani International Food Sovereignty Movement for partnering with us in organizing this event and sharing with us best practices and technical knowledge. I warmly welcome you all and wish you a productive and inspiring session. Thank you. Thank you so much, Nabil. Indeed, food systems transformation and affordable, healthy diets are not possible without full and meaningful participation of women who are key contributors to agricultural production cycle. However, despite their substantive role and contributions to the food systems, rural women in Europe and Central Asia, they face significant challenges in accessing resources, including knowledge and innovation. Strong partnerships are a prerequisite for addressing these issues in the context of increasing shocks and crisis. And at this session, we focus on the importance of a common agenda and partnership building between key stakeholders, including ministries of agriculture, rural advisory services, civil society organizations, private sector and gender expert community, in closing the gaps in assessing accessibility, knowledge and innovation. Our objective today is to share some good and promising practices and examples of collaborative efforts in facilitating access to resources for women working in farms and thus contributing to achieving inclusive and equitable agri-food systems. Our esteemed speakers, panelists, will represent cases from Turkey, from Hungary, from Italy, Ireland and from the whole region. So without further delay, I would like to give a floor to our first panelists who will be joining us online from Ankara, Turkey. Before that, I would like to say that, yeah, Nabil knows that you have to observe some protocol issues, but we continue our work, our session is recorded and we will be disseminating its footage in the networks with all our partners, counterparts, stakeholders. Ms. Asli Chavush, who is our first speaker today, she is head of the working group on rural women and as a directorate general of agricultural research and policies of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Turkey. Ms. Chavush is also a national coordinator of the ongoing regional project that covers Turkey, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It is implemented under the framework of FAO-Turkey a partnership program and is called Living No One Behind, Greater Involvement and Empowerment of Rural Women. We will be listening to experiences of the ministry to addressing these issues on the ground and I would like to ask Ms. Chavush to describe us how Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and actually what it's doing to reach rural women and address their needs in terms of improving their access to technical knowledge and skills. Asli, Hanu, are you with us? Hello, good morning. Yes, dear Donna, I'm here. I'm with you. I wish you a very fruitful session. First of all, well, I am joining from the Department of Education and Publication of the Ministry of Agriculture. I'm an agricultural engineer. I've been working in the rural for 20 years for a better development of women. We have been working as a unit in this field for over a decade. The purpose of our decade is economic and social empowerment of women, attain gender equality, improve entrepreneurship and employment. For this purpose, we provide education and extension services to the community and women in the field and we support cooperative organisations in agricultural business lines. We support and encourage women entrepreneurs and we carry on some projects to socioeconomically empower women. As you have just suggested, well, protecting the family farming and making it sustainable is a goal that we have, a major goal that we have. That is why we provide education, publication, extension services to youth and farmers, youth and women farmers and yes, when we are engaged in all these activities, we follow a certain method. Of course, let me describe this methodology, the pathway that we follow. In Turkey, we have 81 provinces and 922 district offices. That's a huge network that we are on top of as the Ministry and our activities focuses on women and the development and empowerment of rural women. For this purpose, we have extension experts working in the offices, rural offices of the Ministry of Agriculture. First, they take an inventory of the problems and then they check what the educational needs are. Annually, they prepare and design programmes and the educational needs of them are taken into consideration when the extension and education staff are planning their training activities for a period of one year. Women farmers are engaged in each and every stage of agricultural production. It's necessary to improve their skills and knowledge that is also contributing to the quality of production and the quantity of production. So in terms of plant production and animal production, we try to improve their knowledge via demonstrations, field days and other training sessions. We provide education, training and extension services in all 81 provinces of Turkey. Also, in order to modernise the social life of women and in order to empower them socioeconomically, we also help them with household economy. They are trained about nutrition, child development, education, the management of the household, handicrafts and many other occupations. So we provide these training and education services in all 81 provinces of Turkey. However, we know that women's empowerment cannot be achieved just one ministry. So we all recognise this fact. We collaborate with different public institutions that are working for and with women. We also collaborate with the private sector and related agencies of the UN. We have collaborations with all these partners in order to empower women. We have a FAO FTPP2 programme and this programme includes a project that you have just referred to. This is just an example of our collaborations. Within the scope of the FAO-Turkey Partnership programme, we are implementing this project that you heard from Deirdre and the title is Living No One Behind, Greater Involvement and Empowerment of Burel women in Turkey and Central Asia. The goal of the project in fact can be easily guessed, but let me start with the background of this project. As you know, women all the major share and play a major role in agriculture and I can say that 50% of all agricultural roles are undertaken by women. And however, they have limited access to resources and services and employment opportunities. So as you suggested, increasing their access to such elements increases agricultural productivity and food security. That is why in order to enhance women's farmer's capacity, in order to ensure a better understanding of equal opportunities and in order to project all these on the practices, we identify the needs because adoption of such approaches will also contribute to attainment of the sustainable development goals. Reduction of poverty, gender equality are part of sustainable development goals. So we make references to such indicators and also climate, environment, and environmentally smart trainings. They're all part of one whole that is namely sustainable development goals. We work in line with these goals. Additionally, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry already had some vast experience regarding a national action plan for empowerment of Burel women. It has already been providing some intense trainings to women farmers and entrepreneurs and it has already been supporting women-led culprits and young farmers. So we wanted to transfer this experience with help of this FAO project. That is one more background item for this project. And in fact, our unit had already carried out two projects in partnership with FAO. One was about statistics in that we worked with Deirdona and also for institutional capacity building we conducted another project as well. In that project, we just created a module to be used for our rural extension staff. So they would use this module in order to provide better extension services to the rural. So in the light of all these background items, we designed and formulated the project and the objective of the project, in fact, was to enhance women and in order to implement gender-responsive programs, so we aimed at enhancing institutional mechanisms and capacities. We also aimed at enhancing real women's capacity with respect to agricultural entrepreneurship and business development through engagement in the value chains and improved access to markets, information and skills. And we also aimed at achieving regional dialogue and exchanging good practices regarding sustainable and inclusive agricultural and forestry activities, which promote rural women's entrepreneurship and women's empowerment in the context of Agenda 2030. Well, the project components are as follows and enhance institutional mechanisms and capacities, regional dialogue and exchange of good practices and in line with and on based of all these enhancing women's capacity. Main project activities. Well, we wanted to improve the capacity for policy makers and practitioners in relation to agriculture and food security. And also we wanted to support institutional frameworks for implementation of the related policies and that's why we would contribute to the creation of an enabling environment for improving the economic conditions of rural women. Another objective was to set up gender units in the pilot provinces identified. So these gender units were something that we really needed. Well, of course, we had been carrying out some women's improvements activities. But these activities were single and individual activities. They were not really very much interconnected. So under the gender units, we would ensure some integration. We set up the gender units with this purpose. And in fact, if we are convinced that they are operational perfect, then they will be scaled up to the regional level and then to the whole national level. So one of our aims is to propose that these gender units are functioning excellently and they should be available in all 81 provinces of Turkey. And we are going to propose it so that it will be a part of the policy paper. While activity is in fact, in order to implement gender responsive agriculture and rural development policies and programs, regional workshops will be organized to be participated by the Ministry of Agriculture of Turkey, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. And a regional platform will be created where challenges, best practices and political solutions will be shared. Putspins from other countries will also have the opportunity to share their experiences and best practices to cover the needs of rural women. And there does an awareness raising campaign will be organized to create regional and promote regional success stories that can inspire women in the region. Let me briefly describe you the gender units that we have, the objectives of the gender unit is to empower women, in particular, rural women, step up economic roles of women that they play in agriculture and development, prioritize resolution of the problems encountered by rural and farmer women, and bring out women entrepreneurs, women in employment and leader producer of women in various projects. And thus scale down the migration from rural to urban and create opportunities for women and youth so that they can keep living where they are. And let me tell you how we formulated the establishment and foundation of the gender units. We had three pilot provinces and with the consent from the provincial governance offices, gender units were established. And taking into consideration the actual texture and agricultural activities of that province, but the gender neutral approach, minimum staff members were assigned to the gender units. And if in the provincial agricultural directors, there was already a sociologist, the sociologist would also be included in the team because it will be necessary to make a sociologic assessment of the women. It will be necessary to carry out demographic studies and they need to be actively involved in all these provincial activities. That is why we engage the sociologist. And under the coordination of the division director for coordination agricultural data, we set up another structure consisting of a unit hand and technical staff members. And we have taken the necessary actions in order to physically strengthen the capacity of these units. And all these are for improving the institutional capacity because these people will be training the rural women and in order to improve the institutional capacity, we conducted some training sessions and gender response extension services that remained the topic of these training sessions. Maybe, you know, very recently we, I mean, Turkey was hit by a disaster, particularly earthquake and a disaster response was part of the training sessions that we provided. Sustainable development goals were likewise the part of the training topics. I'm just giving some examples from the different topics that we covered in the training. Well, the gender units had the following operating principles drew up a gender response work plan and executed in line with the provincial extension programs. In the provinces, we worked on the deeds of women and the action plans at the provincial level. The provinces, we take the value chain chains and currently we are working on creating some value chains that can be really representative for the provinces. Other principles include conducting an ease analysis and a reporting of the same, create a network in the three provinces, formulate projects to ensure local development and formulate projects to contribute to employment through collaboration, organize workshops, panels, field days and produce reports of the conducted activities. At the end of three years, we're going to conduct an impact analysis and the outputs will be shared with the ministry. Well, here are our work domains, education and training. It's a priority, of course, entrepreneurship, employment is another work domain, increasing the product added values and marketing strategies and cooperative organizations. Ms. Chauhush, yeah, thank you so much. I think it's a very interesting case, especially about creating gender units at provincial level, specifically to reach rural women and help them to acquire new skills or enhance those that they already have. Unfortunately, we have very limited time and we have several more cases we listened to before we also have some exchange of opinions and we need to go further. Thanks a lot. I hope you will stay online because there might be questions to you, Ms. Chauhush. Our next panelist is Ms. Margit Bhatiani-Schmidt, president of the Union of Hungarian Women. Margo aims to empower Hungarian rural women to become economically independent and to improve quality of life of their families, of their communities. And the Union of Hungarian Women is a non-governmental organization, has a consultative status with KASOK and Margo herself is an active member of the biggest network of European farmers, Kopa Kojega, its women's committee and is an expert for many more European institutes. And Margo is accompanied by Ms. Monika Mejaroz, also a founding member of the Union, but although in the past Monika worked with state administration, now she's a business lady and she manages her own consultancy firm and additionally, she is actively involved in many projects supported by the European Commission that contribute to the development of small and medium enterprises and startups. So the floor is yours. Please observe the lemons that we have, thank you. Okay, thank you, Dono. So good morning, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Hungary, welcome to Budapest. And thanks for the FAO that this possibility that we can be here in this side event. So let me introduce a little bit about the Union of Hungarian Women Association. It was established in 2013 with 17 funding members and there were supporting male members to 10%. We currently reach more than 5,000 people directly and participate around 200 events every year. We finance our programs through both national and international funds and the applications. Our main goal is to encourage rural Hungarian women to embrace their role in the family, to improve their quality of life, to protect their physical and mental health and to inspire them to become entrepreneurs. At last, but not least, we dedicated 2022 to the 100th anniversary of the death of the first Hungarian female physician, Hugo Naivilma, within the framework of our cooperation with Judensko. So Dono has already mentioned that we are working with many European Institute. This is the co-phase, the women entrepreneurs platform, the Copa Kojega, and we have cooperation agreement with FAO, we had cooperation agreement. And the next one about the activities in this year, what we did, I think that the main event was the CSW67. It was an online side event and that was the title that can rural women be digital nomads. And there was the main topics, innovation and technological change, education in the digital age, creating equal opportunities and empowering women and girls. The following countries were represented, of course, United States of America, Uzbekistan, Belgium, Cyprus and Hungary. The Union of Hungary and women is focusing on the empowerment of rural women. Women are the key actors in the management of the sustainability in their communities, in their families. And this is what we at the Union of Hungary and women put in the focus of our work. We look at women as the key figures in helping to create a sustainable future by educating their children and their communities. What kind of problems do we have to face as women in agriculture and social status? First is to access the control of resources, then the lack of rights to own or acquire land. Then third is the poverty and the fourth is the access to the education. And in the fall of 2021, we created the Talent A education and supporting program for women farmers with the International Agricultural Company, Kortevo Agri Science. This is origin from United States. The Talent A program aims to provide a wide range of professional, educational and financial opportunities for Hungarian women farmers. Due to its huge success, we are delighted to have launched the program again for the second time this year. What is it about? This is online education program, 16 lectures. It's about the creating communities, negotiations, business plan, presentation techniques, agricultural digitalization, cyber safety, food security, investor looking for them. It was Zoom-based and at the end, they had to write a micro-project. There were, for example, this year, 29 people as an application. It was about from 15 counties of Hungary. There are in Hungary 19 counties and from the east and north side of Hungary. The age of the applications, again, applications about more than 30, two or three children they are at home. Diverse background, producing healthy products, set up a herb farm making cheese, offer countryside tourism services and growing veggies and drying fruits. The award ceremony will be in October on the United Nations International Day of Rural Women. The first, second, and the third prize from the 11 application with the micro-projects, totally up to US$1,000 support and private coaching. With the program is the bottom-up approach. We have the participants to solve smaller problems and integrate it as a wall and complete the solution. The bigger picture lead them to the goals they set. These are some pictures from the last year's program. And one of the winners was the so-called spicy girl who engaged in producing herbs. Another winner I would like to highlight, the other winner who produced fruits and was able to use the prize to buy a fruit drying machine. So now I would like to thank you for the kind and passion and I give the floor to Monika. Yeah, and it didn't go. Thank you for keeping me safe. Thank you. Okay. Thank you so much, Margo. And first of all, I would like to thank for Dono for the invitation because as Margo have just said, it's our pleasure to give a visibility for our work, which is not only on national level, but it's also on international level as well. I'm going to give a presentation, a short one about the EU project we are a partner in. We are the only Hungarian partner in the so-called GAIA project, granting access to employment and entrepreneurship in agriculture for women. It's an EU founded project and it's led by Cyprus partner. The project timeline is between of 2022 June and 2025 June. It's a long project with a total of 1.5 million euro and the partners contribute with 20% of own resource. As it was just said, the project is an ongoing one and it's a forward-looking project aiming to improve the education for rural women related to agriculture. So they can join, whether they would like to set up their own company or they would like to be employed in the rural areas also. And if they would like to deal with agro-tourism or agricultural food products, it's also welcomed. We would like to inspire, mentor, empower, educate and train women in agriculture. And that's why this transnational collaboration takes place between certain partners from 10 different countries. The certain partners are quite different because we have higher education partner, technological background partner, ICT company, the Kopak Kojaga itself and also the Union of Hungarian Women Association. The partners are from different countries, from Belgium through the Netherlands, via Hungary to Norway, Spain, Slovenia and so on. We would like to create a pan-European digital ecosystem. In order to do this, we map already the needs of women who are neither in employment nor in education. And we would like to develop a digital platform with a digital app to provide a holistic training for them. Of course, it should be accompanied by a physical appearance of the ladies, of mentors and participants. So we will organize a bootcamp as well in the Czech Republic. And then at the end of the project, we will give a feedback on EU level. This work package is led by the Union of Hungarian Women in cooperation with the Kopak Kojaga. The target group is the women, of course, who are neither in employment nor in education and training, living in rural areas. Meanwhile, of course, women with migrant background can join higher education students, higher education staff and vocational, educational and training trainers and professionals can join as well. This is the direct target group. Meanwhile, we also have indirect target group, of course. These are agribusiness associations, local communities, chamber of commerce and so on. It's quite wide range of stakeholders, I would say. The activities are also well structured in order to support women in the rural areas. We have two horizontal work packages. One is dedicated for the project management. The other is for the communication. And as I have said, we will organize a mobile app, a digital platform and an innovation bootcamp for them. And we will give a feedback for EU level institutions. You can see the qualitative result, what we would like to achieve at the end of the project, at least 40 women participating in bootcamps. We would like to have at least 2,000 visits to the project digital platform and at least supporting 120 agribusinesses. So if you would like to learn more about the activities of the Union of Hungarian Women Association or you would like to learn more about this project, what we are implementing at the moment, please join us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or contact us by email. I would like to thank again for the FAO to organize this event. And thank you for the attention. Thank you very much, Margo. Monika, I think it's very interesting cases. These presentations will be available to the participants. And as I said, we will be having recording that we will be sharing later on with the participants beyond this group. Let me move to next cases and experiences of collaboration and partnerships that help to facilitate access of women working in firms to knowledge and innovation. It gives me great pleasure to introduce you, Ms. Judith Hitchman, a member of Nieleni, Europe and Central Asia, Civil Society, Social Movement, Facilitation Committee, ex-president of Oregon, which I am not pronouncing it correctly. It was a global community that supports agriculture work, but I'm sure you will say more about it. And Judith is accompanied by Paola. Paola is a young, willing to be farmer based in Italy and is a member of Assationi Rurali Italiana, a member of the European Coordination Via Campesina. And Paola recently concluded her formation in organic farming and is now in the process of looking for a farm job in the rural area where she is trying to install. The floor is yours. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. And thank you very much for giving us the honor of being part of this panel. Could I have my PowerPoint, please? Could I have my PowerPoint, please? So women produce and cook most of our food, but they also work. So have the double burden, as has already been mentioned. But the question of women throughout the whole food system is extremely complex. I've just shown you this slide here to show you the many, many different treaties that exist and the way in which the whole food system is operating in terms of silos, land rights, workers' rights, and so on, all depend on biodiversity, all depend on different treaties and different UN agencies. And this is a useful reference, this table, to see where you can get additional support because women's issues are cross-cutting, but we also need to work as one and try and take elements from the different areas and places where we can. We, as Nieline Europe and Central Asia, represent all the different constituencies. We cover the fields of biodiversity, forests and foraging, water, pastoralists, and I just want to pause for one second because these pastoralists were in the high Atlas Mountains a long time ago. My thoughts are with them. I wonder what's become of them and I'm just sending thoughts to all the people there in Morocco. Also, fishers, indigenous peoples, consumers, and all specifically, centred around our access and right to food through healthy, nutritious food and agro-ecological, small-scale food producer agriculture. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that all of the examples that we have here are the ones that we're going to talk about are based on a different form of economy. They're not based on the standard neoliberal economy. They're based on what is called social and solidarity economy and that in April of this year, there was a very important event because the UN General Assembly voted resolution in support of social and solidarity economy which will help us to move all our work forward. It is the A-RES-77281 and this is something that we can integrate into our work through all the UN agencies and it will help us to move women's empowerment and their local economic development front. The key concerns for women are social and food justice because it affects women most of all, particularly in times of war and difficulty. The fact that we need urgent system change although we're affected by the climate crisis, the care economy which is increasingly important, women in all their diversity must be taken into account, agroecology and women farmers presence, connecting farmers to markets at territorial level, advocacy for policy frameworks, legislation and women as leaders. And in our networks, we have found that we have a significantly higher number of young women farmers and women leaders today. Urban rural linkages and access to and care and prevention, preservation of land, water and seeds. Now I have four success stories to bring to you that were implemented through the FAO support together with the Scola Campesina in our region, the first in Central Asia sub-region the title was the women's initiatives linking producers and urban consumers and their importance in times of crisis which is really vital today. It was led by Adi in Kyrgyzstan, the agency for development initiative and it involved organizations from Kyrgyzstan to Jikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan that was last April and there were 67 people who attended the webinar. The second was the Eastern European sub-region on seed saving and knowledge in agroecology. It involved organizations from Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus and it was led by Gradina Moldova with 50 participants. The third was in the Western Balkan sub-region where women's role in agri-food value chains in the Western Balkans led by the Albanian network and there were 58 participants and the final one in the South Caucasus and Turkey sub-region on agroecology for women's economic empowerment and strengthening their autonomy. And it involved Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey and had 50 participants. If you want any additional information on those workshops please speak with our colleague Andrea Ferranti. He is the person. I'm just the mouth putting it out there. So thank you very much everybody. And as somebody who was a founder of the Irish women's movement in the 1960s I'm really proud to still be working on these issues today. Thank you. Thank you very much. Paola, would you like to say you have one minute, no more? Unfortunately we have this time restrictions we need to pocket the room. Okay, I'll go very quick. And so today I was asked to bring an example of women empowerment in my experience and it was not so easy to find an answer which made me think that perhaps not so many good examples exist. But when I think that 90% of the land in Europe and Central Asia is owned by men then perhaps it also makes sense. And to answer I looked at an example from the movement I'm part of which is La Via Campesina presenting peasants all over the world and rural workers. And it's an example of a cooperative located in a Basque country, north of Spain which is a great example of gender inclusivity in farming because they combined parenthood and collective farming which strengthened eventually the collective itself. In fact, following the pregnancy of some members of the project, a reduction in working hours as well as the introduction of new young farmers in the project was proposed and achieved through the support of a farmer workers union. And what could have become an issue of gender inequality became an improvement in working condition and increase in cooperative members and a community supported solution based on solidarity. And I chose this case study because I think that when we talk about innovation in food production, we always focus on digital and technological innovation and we tend to ignore what social innovation is which should be instead prioritized because it does not rely on further depletion of ecological resources like much of current digital technologies are and is grounded in human capital enabling the adequate environment for women empowerment in food production. And of course, we cannot expect the solution to lie at the farm level but we must expect policies to support strong examples of women empowerment at the farm level. Thank you. Excellent, thank you so much. I think there are so many issues that came up at that need for the discussion. We simply have no time but I think it's a good start and this can smoothly go on maybe integrating, inspiring further discussions throughout the day. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all speakers and participants and have to announce this session closed because we need to give a floor now to the plenary session. They've been requested to do this repeatedly. Thanks a lot and we will be sharing the recording. Very interesting cases. I'm sure they will be of big interest to our counterparts in the region. Thanks a lot.