CGIAR GENDER Platform evidence explainers
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Item Better use of gender-disaggregated data will improve climate-smart agriculture programs(Brief, 2023-12-06) Deering, Karl; Wright, P.Item The private sector could play a much bigger role in promoting gender-responsive climate-smart agriculture(Brief, 2023-11-28) Muneri, E.W.Item Norms and institutional obstacles cause differences in women’s and men’s adoption of climate-smart agriculture(Brief, 2023-11-28) Muneri, E.W.Item Knowledge dissemination approaches targeting women increase their use of climate-smart agricultural practices(Brief, 2023-11-27) Saran, Ashrita; Puskur, RanjithaItem Climate funding in agriculture that considers women can improve environmental, social and economic outcomes(Brief, 2023-11-13) Thomas, Benjamin; Bagnera, Elena; Pinko, NicoleItem More women’s agency on farms relates to better household nutrition—but differs by the type of production system(Brief, 2023-10-30) Vemireddy, Vidya; Bajoria, PriyanshaItem Raising aspirations is one way of empowering women in agriculture(Brief, 2023-06-21) Nandi, R.Item The status of women in agriculture and food systems: Persistent gaps and promising solutions(Brief, 2023-04-13) Gadeberg, Marianne; Lecoutere, ElsItem Governing bodies of global food organizations are lacking in gender and geographic diversity(Brief, 2022-12-05) Tanaka, Sonja; Parker, Alex"Key messages - More than 7 in 10 board seats (247/350) of organizations active in global food systems are held by nationals of high-income countries. This means that 70 percent of board seats represent just 16 percent of the global population. - Only 2 percent of board seats (7/351) are occupied by women from low-income countries, revealing huge disparities in the gender and geography of positions of power in global food systems organizations. - While organizations must be doing more to advance gender equality, there are positive shifts in the data. The proportion of women board chairs has increased - yet at just over one-third (16/45), this is still a far cry from gender parity. "Item Increasing women’s involvement in the workforce can improve dietary diversity(Brief, 2022-12-02) Sangwan, Nikita; Kumar, Shalander"Key messages - When women are more involved in the workforce, the dietary diversity of their households improves. The extra time that women use at work does not have adverse effects on their health. - Women’s paid and unpaid work impacts dietary diversity in different ways: paid work results in financial independence and empowerment in household decision-making that allows women to diversify diets. Unpaid work increases the number of food groups produced by women for consumption by their households. - Policies and development programs can harness synergies between schemes to improve nutrition and increase women’s employment to pursue global goals of ensuring better food for all."Item How climate change adaptation projects can advance gender equality and progress toward SDG 5(Brief, 2022-10-21) Some, Shreya; Roy, Joyashree"Key messages - Existing societal dynamics, including women’s lack of access to technology and their increasing labor burden due to forced migration, are some of the key reasons behind gender inequality in climate change adaptation projects. - Embedding gender considerations and facilitating women’s participation in design and implementation of climate adaptation projects—along with inclusive policies, training, information access, planning and monitoring—is a must to avoid gender inequality. - Evidence is clear: conscious efforts are essential to integrate local, Indigenous, intergenerational knowledge and institutions in existing, otherwise biased, formal scientific and institutional arrangements. Women play important roles in supporting, teaching and adapting traditional knowledge to climate change adaptive actions. "Item Effects of women’s empowerment interventions in food systems(Brief, 2022-08-03) Lane, Charlotte"Key messages - Available evidence indicates that women’s empowerment interventions can improve food security as well as food affordability and/or availability. Effects on diet quality and adequacy are smaller; however, the evidence is limited so this is not conclusive. - Qualitative evidence suggests that multi-component interventions that combine behavior change with asset transfers are more sustainable than single-focus interventions. - Gender-transformative approaches that consider gender and social norms and target men to expand women’s social roles may allow women to pursue more livelihoods options outside of the home. "Item Identifying climate–agriculture–gender inequality hotspots can help target investments and make women drivers of climate resilience(Brief, 2022-06-02) Puskur, Ranjitha; Lecoutere, Els"Key Messages - Women in food systems tend to be more negatively impacted by climate risks than men as they are more dependent on agriculture as well as more constrained in responding and adapting to changes in climate because of structural socio-economic inequalities. - Identifying climate–agriculture–gender inequality hotspots, where climate hazards converge with large concentrations of women participating in food systems and significant structural gender inequalities, enables allocating scarce resources to most-at-risk populations. - Women’s vulnerability to climate risk is highly contextual; this methodology to identify hotspots can be applied to identify subnational hotspots within countries. - When root causes of women’s excess risk to climate change impacts are addressed, women can be agents of change in building climate resilience."Item Gender stereotypes must be overturned to improve women’s opportunities as food system entrepreneurs(Brief, 2022-01-26) Nordhagen, Stella"Key messages - Both men and women in low- and middle-income countries face barriers to owning and growing food-systems enterprises, but those faced by women are generally higher. These barriers include poor access to finance, networks and mentors; lower literacy and numeracy; limited business skills; gender stereotypes; limited mobility; and dual work burdens. - These issues can be partially overcome by providing training, business development services and financing and by fostering networks, but gender-transformative approaches to address root causes will also be needed. - Negative stereotypes about women-owned businesses can be self-fulfilling, making it essential to recognize and accommodate the unique challenges women entrepreneurs face without reinforcing such stereotypes."Item Assessing women’s empowerment initiatives collaboratively can create positive change(Brief, 2021-10-04) Elias, Marlène; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.Empowerment (https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00125) is the process by which people gain the ability to make strategic choices in their lives and to act upon them, when they previously could not. It is a complex, intangible, political, context-specic and multidimensional concept that entails changes at multiple (individual, relational, environmental) levels. Even if assessments of empowerment are imperfect, they can contribute to stronger and more accountable programs and policies. Qualitative and quantitative methods can both yield valuable information for assessing empowerment; combining them can yield comprehensive information that cannot be acquired by using any method alone. Understanding empowerment requires research to embrace and address complexity, to unearth the structural barriers that cause inequality. Our review of 15 tools for measuring women’s empowerment shows that all tools explore agency, but most neglect structural causes of disempowerment. Future research on women’s empowerment should seek to better understand the links between empowerment and agriculture, decision-making processes and situations where positive changes in some dimensions of women’s empowerment can cause setbacks in others.Item The impacts of financial inclusion programs are small and variable(Brief, 2021-09-07) Duvendack, Maren; Mader, PhilipItem How can migration-induced feminization of agriculture empower women in the dry areas?(Brief, 2021-08-17) Najjar, DinaItem Labor-saving technologies designed for women can reduce their drudgery(Brief, 2021-08-16) Vemireddy, Vidya; Choudhary, AnjaliItem Improved data collection could pinpoint promising strategies for women’s empowerment through livestock development.(Brief, 2021-02-23) Baltenweck, IsabelleItem How nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs can realize both nutrition and gender equality goals(Brief, 2021-02-23) Malapit, Hazel J.Globally, malnutrition remains unacceptably high, and hard-won progress is further threatened by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Agriculture, with its critical role in the production, availability and consumption of food, as well as rural livelihoods and incomes, must step up to help address nutrition challenges. Nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs (NSAPs) are one way that agriculture can contribute to achieving our global nutrition goals. These programs also have the potential to help meet other critical development objectives, specifically women’s empowerment and shifting of underlying barriers that perpetuate gender inequalities.