Addressing Gender Inequalities and Strengthening Women's Agency for Climate-resilient and Sustainable Food Systems

Climate change affects every aspect of the food system, including all nodes along agrifood value chains from production to consumption, the food environments in which people live, and outcomes, such as diets and livelihoods. Women and men often have specific roles and responsibilities within food sy...

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Autores principales: Bryan, Elizabeth, Alvi, Muzna, Huyer, Sophia, Ringler, Claudia
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/129709
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author Bryan, Elizabeth
Alvi, Muzna
Huyer, Sophia
Ringler, Claudia
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description Climate change affects every aspect of the food system, including all nodes along agrifood value chains from production to consumption, the food environments in which people live, and outcomes, such as diets and livelihoods. Women and men 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 women and men 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 agrifood systems, within the household, at work and at the community level. 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.
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spelling CGSpace1297092025-11-11T17:10:10Z Addressing Gender Inequalities and Strengthening Women's Agency for Climate-resilient and Sustainable Food Systems Bryan, Elizabeth Alvi, Muzna Huyer, Sophia Ringler, Claudia climate change resilience food systems Climate change affects every aspect of the food system, including all nodes along agrifood value chains from production to consumption, the food environments in which people live, and outcomes, such as diets and livelihoods. Women and men 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 women and men 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 agrifood systems, within the household, at work and at the community level. 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. 2023-04-15 2023-03-21T13:53:40Z 2023-03-21T13:53:40Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/129709 en Open Access application/pdf application/pdf CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform Bryan, E., Alvi, M., Huyer, S. and Ringler, C. 2023. Addressing Gender Inequalities and Strengthening Women’s Agency for Climate-resilient and Sustainable Food Systems. CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform Working Paper #013. Nairobi, Kenya: CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform.
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food systems
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Huyer, Sophia
Ringler, Claudia
Addressing Gender Inequalities and Strengthening Women's Agency for Climate-resilient and Sustainable Food Systems
title Addressing Gender Inequalities and Strengthening Women's Agency for Climate-resilient and Sustainable Food Systems
title_full Addressing Gender Inequalities and Strengthening Women's Agency for Climate-resilient and Sustainable Food Systems
title_fullStr Addressing Gender Inequalities and Strengthening Women's Agency for Climate-resilient and Sustainable Food Systems
title_full_unstemmed Addressing Gender Inequalities and Strengthening Women's Agency for Climate-resilient and Sustainable Food Systems
title_short Addressing Gender Inequalities and Strengthening Women's Agency for Climate-resilient and Sustainable Food Systems
title_sort addressing gender inequalities and strengthening women s agency for climate resilient and sustainable food systems
topic climate change
resilience
food systems
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