Using a sustainable food systems framework to examine gender equality and women’s empowerment in aquatic food systems

cg.contributor.affiliationStockholm Environment Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationWorldFishen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Greenwich, Natural Resources Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationMinistry of Agriculture Irrigation and Water Development, Department of Fisheriesen
cg.contributor.affiliationThe National University of Malaysiaen
cg.contributor.affiliationChulalongkorn University Social Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Gender Platformen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeAquatic Foods
cg.creator.identifierDam Lam, Rodolfo: 0000-0001-5987-3592en
cg.creator.identifierMcDougall, Cynthia: 0000-0002-5606-6813en
cg.creator.identifierRossignoli, Cristiano: 0000-0001-8220-7360en
cg.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1327798en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2571-581Xen
cg.journalFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systemsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.volume8en
dc.contributor.authorAdam, Rahmaen
dc.contributor.authorDam Lam, Rodolfoen
dc.contributor.authorLozano, Deniseen
dc.contributor.authorMcDougall, Cynthiaen
dc.contributor.authorRajaratnam, Surendranen
dc.contributor.authorOuko, Kevinen
dc.contributor.authorManyungwa-Pasani, Chikondien
dc.contributor.authorForsythe, Loraen
dc.contributor.authorRossignoli, Cristianoen
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-05T17:29:54Zen
dc.date.available2024-11-05T17:29:54Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/159273
dc.titleUsing a sustainable food systems framework to examine gender equality and women’s empowerment in aquatic food systemsen
dcterms.abstractThis article aims to generate novel insights by examining gender dynamics within aquaculture and small-scale fisheries, employing a gendered agrifood systems conceptual framework to comprehensively analyze gender equality and women’s empowerment in aquatic food systems. To do this, it evaluates 202 articles using a scoping review methodology. Though additional literature from 19 articles was pulled in to provide the context. The findings are that aquatic foods value chains and food environment are negatively impacted by gender disparities in terms of women’s agency, access to and control over resources, gendered social norms, and policies and governance. This hampers the ability of women to engage in and benefit from aquatic food systems. This results in gendered disparities in dietary outcomes, low achievements in relation to gender equality and women’s empowerment, and less adaptive capacity in relation to developing resilient livelihoods. The article acknowledges the importance of developing and leveraging women’s agency and bargaining power, strengthening their access to and control over key aquatic food systems resources, tackling harmful gender norms, developing gender-sensitive data collection and analysis to inform evidence-based policymaking, and implementing gender-responsive and gender-transformative policies and strategies to create an enabling environment for these interventions to succeed. Investment in multi-level, and multi-layered, gender-responsive and gender-transformative approaches are needed to co-develop – with women and their organizations – positive, gender-equitable norms to strengthen women’s agency and decision-making at a variety of levels, ranging from individual to policy level.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2024-08-29en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationRahma Adam, Rodolfo Dam Lam, Denise Lozano, Cynthia McDougall, Surendran Rajaratnam, Kevin Ouko, Chikondi Manyungwa-Pasani, Lora Forsythe, Cristiano Rossignoli. (29/8/2024). Using a sustainable food systems framework to examine gender equality and women’s empowerment in aquatic food systems. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 8.en
dcterms.formatPDFen
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherFrontiers Media S.A.en
dcterms.subjectgender inequalityen
dcterms.subjectwomen's empowermenten
dcterms.subjectaquatic food systemsen
dcterms.subjectfishen
dcterms.subjectfood systems frameworken
dcterms.subjectpower dynamicsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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