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

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR multi-centreen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.creator.identifierElizabeth Bryan: 0000-0002-0906-222Xen_US
cg.creator.identifierClaudia Ringler: 0000-0002-8266-0488en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2023.100731en_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Natural Resources and Resilience Uniten_US
cg.identifier.publicationRankBen_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.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusionen_US
cg.subject.impactPlatformGenderen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen_US
cg.volume40en_US
dc.contributor.authorBryan, Elizabethen_US
dc.contributor.authorAlvi, Muznaen_US
dc.contributor.authorHuyer, Sophiaen_US
dc.contributor.authorRingler, Claudiaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-21T12:25:50Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-01-21T12:25:50Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/138222en_US
dc.titleAddressing gender inequalities and strengthening women's agency to create more climate-resilient and sustainable food systemsen_US
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_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceCGIARen_US
dcterms.audienceDonorsen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.available2023-12-05en_US
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_US
dcterms.issued2024-03-15en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherElsevieren_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.subjectfood systemsen_US
dcterms.subjectwomenen_US
dcterms.subjectresilienceen_US
dcterms.subjectclimate-smart agricultureen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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