Fostering an enabling environment for equality and empowerment in agri-food systems: An assessment at multiple scales

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationCGIAR GENDER Impact Platform, Kenyaen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Development Research Centreen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areasen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Rice Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeFragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia and North Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierEls Lecoutere: 0000-0002-1025-742Xen_US
cg.creator.identifierEdidah Ampaire: 0000-0003-3679-8360en_US
cg.creator.identifierDina Najjar: 0000-0001-9156-7691en_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2023.100735en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn2211-9124en_US
cg.journalGlobal Food Securityen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformationen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systemsen_US
cg.subject.ilriGENDERen_US
cg.subject.ilriWOMENen_US
cg.subject.ilriFOOD SYSTEMSen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusionen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigationen_US
cg.subject.impactPlatformGenderen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen_US
cg.volume40en_US
dc.contributor.authorLecoutere, Elsen_US
dc.contributor.authorAchandi, Esther L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAmpaire, Edidah L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorFischer, Gundulaen_US
dc.contributor.authorGumucio, Tatianaen_US
dc.contributor.authorNajjar, Dinaen_US
dc.contributor.authorSingaraju, Niyatien_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-20T18:24:10Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-01-20T18:24:10Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/138211en_US
dc.titleFostering an enabling environment for equality and empowerment in agri-food systems: An assessment at multiple scalesen_US
dcterms.abstractInequalities by gender and intersecting sources of social differentiation in access to resources, exercise of agency, and desirable outcomes persist in agri-food systems in low- and middle-income countries. Despite decades of development and theoretical assessment efforts calling for multiscale approaches to addressing inequalities in agri-food systems, common approaches remain specific to a scale rather than holistic. In this paper, we make the case that achieving lasting equality and empowerment in agri-food systems requires transformative change. This depends on fostering an enabling environment by relaxing ‘deeper’ – often inter-related – institutionalized constraints to equality and empowerment across multiple nested scales of the state, markets, communities, household, and individuals. Based on a review of recent literature focused on agri-food systems in low- and middle-income countries, we present newly emerging thinking and a status update of key structural constraints to equality at different scales – rooted in policy and discriminatory, formal and informal, social and economic institutions, including norms. We give examples that show how structural constraints to equality at different nested scales are interdependent and mutually reinforcing; demonstrating the need for holistic approaches tackling constraints at multiple scales to foster transformative change in agri-food systems. We recommend designing holistic policy and development programs that combine strategies for relaxing constraints to equality and empowerment at multiple scales using inclusive processes of tailoring and prioritizing. To inform the design of such programs, we present recent evidence of effective or promising strategies for addressing structural constraints to equality that relate to policy, market systems, collectives, and norms.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.available2023-12-22en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationLecoutere, E., Achandi, E.L., Ampaire, E.L., Fischer, G., Gumucio, T., Najjar, D. and Singaraju, N. 2024. Fostering an enabling environment for equality and empowerment in agri-food systems: An assessment at multiple scales. Global Food Security 40:100735.en_US
dcterms.issued2024-03-15en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherElsevieren_US
dcterms.subjectwomen's empowermenten_US
dcterms.subjectagrifood systemsen_US
dcterms.subjectsocial equalityen_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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