CEDAW/C/1996/3/Add.4 English Page 4 10. In 1994, the Division on Women and People’s Participation in Development produced a guide for member States to reorient curricula entitled Rural households and sustainability: Integrating environment and gender concerns into home economics curricula, and in 1995 released new versions of two major publications - the Extension reference manual and the Extension training guide, drawing on experiences of the Division in a five-nation (Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe) project to improve extension work with women. A FAO manual on Improving Agricultural Extension Work with Rural Women is being adapted by the Subregional Office for Southern/East Africa with the University of Ghana (Faculty of Agriculture and the Department of Home Science) to specific training needs in Ghana. Assistance is being provided by the Division to projects designed to reach rural women in remote areas including the ongoing project in Mali funded by the Belgian Government, "Assistance aux groupements des femmes de la zone encadrée de Kayes Nord" to increase and diversify food production and to increase nutritional status, introduce income-generating activities, to improve access to water and consequently to extend the period of cultivation and, finally, to assist farmers in establishing local markets. 11. FAO began to elaborate a series of case-studies in Africa and Asia on female enrolment trends in agricultural colleges and universities in developing countries. This complements the preparation of directories of such institutions that present the numbers of male and female students and faculty members. The directories for Africa and Central and Eastern Europe were printed in 1995. During the biennium, the Division held eight regional round tables on agricultural education, highlighting the need to increase female enrolment in agricultural programmes. Summary reports of each were published in all official languages of the United Nations in 1994. 12. The Agricultural Services Division revised its training manual on Farming systems research and extension to make it more gender-responsive. In 1994, FAO published a case-study entitled "Extension ’woman to woman’ - Training peasant women liaisons to reach peasant women". It summarizes lessons learned from FAO field projects in Honduras between 1986 and 1992 in providing training and extension services for and through rural women and extension staff. Based on experiences gained in various African countries, the Agricultural Services Division and the Division on Women and People’s Participation in Development also published "Managing income-generating rural activities: Village group training" for use by trainers and extensionists. 2. Sustainable development, natural resource management and environment 13. A large number of FAO activities aim at enhancing women’s roles in sustainable development. A more specific body of efforts centres on researching and raising awareness about the links among environment, poverty, population and rural women. /...