Addressing gender inequalities and strengthening women's agency to create more climate-resilient and sustainable food systems

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR multi-centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.creator.identifierElizabeth Bryan: 0000-0002-0906-222Xen
cg.creator.identifierClaudia Ringler: 0000-0002-8266-0488en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2023.100731en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Natural Resources and Resilience Uniten
cg.identifier.publicationRankBen
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2211-9124en
cg.journalGlobal Food Securityen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.impactPlatformGender
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen
cg.volume40en
dc.contributor.authorBryan, Elizabethen
dc.contributor.authorAlvi, Muznaen
dc.contributor.authorHuyer, Sophiaen
dc.contributor.authorRingler, Claudiaen
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-21T12:25:50Zen
dc.date.available2024-01-21T12:25:50Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/138222
dc.titleAddressing gender inequalities and strengthening women's agency to create more climate-resilient and sustainable food systemsen
dcterms.abstractClimate change affects every aspect of the food system, including all nodes along agri-food value chains from production to consumption, the food environments in which people live, and outcomes, such as diets and livelihoods. Men and women often have specific roles and responsibilities within food systems, yet structural inequalities (formal and informal) limit women's access to resources, services, and agency. These inequalities affect the ways in which men and women experience and are affected by climate change. In addition to gender, other social factors are at play, such as age, education, marital status, and health and economic conditions. To date, most climate change policies, investments, and interventions do not adequately integrate gender. If climate-smart and climate-resilient interventions do not adequately take gender differences into account, they might exacerbate gender inequalities in food systems by, for instance, increasing women's labor burden and time poverty, reducing their access to and control over income and assets, and reducing their decision-making power. At the same time, women's contributions are critical to make food systems more resilient to the negative impacts of climate change, given their specialized knowledge, skills and roles in agri-food systems, within the household, at work and in their communities. Increasing the resilience of food systems requires going beyond addressing gendered vulnerabilities to climate change to create an enabling environment that supports gender equality and women's empowerment, by removing structural barriers and rigid gender norms, and building equal power dynamics, as part of a process of gender transformative change. For this to happen, more research is needed to prioritize structural barriers that need to be removed and to identify effective gender transformative approaches.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceCGIARen
dcterms.audienceDonorsen
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2023-12-05en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBryan, E., Alvi, M., Huyer, S. and Ringler, C. 2024. Addressing gender inequalities and strengthening women's agency to create more climate-resilient and sustainable food systems. Global Food Security 40:100731.en
dcterms.issued2024-03-15en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectfood systemsen
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.subjectresilienceen
dcterms.subjectclimate-smart agricultureen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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