On the occasion of the International Women's Day, theInternational Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the World Food Programme (WFP) discoursed how women empowerment and gender equality are quintessential to achieving sustainable development. The talks further tackled how information and communication technologies (ICT) can promote gender equality and bridge the gender digital divide. 'The global rise of information has deeply affected rural women in poor countries, who often find themselves on the wrong side of the digital divide: because they live in developing countries, in rural areas, and because they are women, leaving them more likely poor and vulnerable to economic and climatic shocks,' underscored FAO Director-General Jos