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
cg.contributor.affiliationCGIAR GENDER Impact Platform, Kenyaen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Development Research Centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areasen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Rice Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeFragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia and North Africa
cg.creator.identifierEls Lecoutere: 0000-0002-1025-742Xen
cg.creator.identifierEdidah Ampaire: 0000-0003-3679-8360en
cg.creator.identifierDina Najjar: 0000-0001-9156-7691en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2023.100735en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2211-9124en
cg.journalGlobal Food Securityen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.ilriGENDERen
cg.subject.ilriWOMENen
cg.subject.ilriFOOD SYSTEMSen
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigation
cg.subject.impactPlatformGender
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen
cg.volume40en
dc.contributor.authorLecoutere, Elsen
dc.contributor.authorAchandi, Esther L.en
dc.contributor.authorAmpaire, Edidah L.en
dc.contributor.authorFischer, Gundulaen
dc.contributor.authorGumucio, Tatianaen
dc.contributor.authorNajjar, Dinaen
dc.contributor.authorSingaraju, Niyatien
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-20T18:24:10Zen
dc.date.available2024-01-20T18:24:10Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/138211
dc.titleFostering an enabling environment for equality and empowerment in agri-food systems: An assessment at multiple scalesen
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
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2023-12-22en
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
dcterms.issued2024-03-15en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectwomen's empowermenten
dcterms.subjectagrifood systemsen
dcterms.subjectsocial equalityen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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