Can innovations in agri-food systems deliver gender equity and resilience?

Agri-food systems constitute a huge proportion of global jobs and economies, but are failing to provide healthy diets, equitable livelihoods and sustainable practices. Women in rural areas are highly prominent in the sector and most vulnerable to climate impacts. Co-designing and bundling innovat...

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Main Authors: Johnstone, Kevin, Aung, May Thazin, Barrett, Sam
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: International Institute for Environment and Development 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132863
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description Agri-food systems constitute a huge proportion of global jobs and economies, but are failing to provide healthy diets, equitable livelihoods and sustainable practices. Women in rural areas are highly prominent in the sector and most vulnerable to climate impacts. Co-designing and bundling innovations could offer significant opportunities to achieve better outcomes. We reviewed the evidence base to explore how social and technical innovations can contribute to household resilience and gender equality. The findings suggest that combining different types of sociocultural and technical innovations into bundles (STIBs) offer a promising way forward, if they are appropriate for the context. This briefing provides a framework for agri-food practitioners to implement STIBs across contexts, stressing the importance of participative processes and understanding the contextual gender dynamics to build household resilience. Highlighting a huge evidence gap, the study calls for stronger evaluation and learning mechanisms and greater investment in rigorous, longitudinal studies.
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spelling CGSpace1328632023-11-10T02:09:37Z Can innovations in agri-food systems deliver gender equity and resilience? Johnstone, Kevin Aung, May Thazin Barrett, Sam technology innovation climate resilience monitoring and evaluation agrifood systems gender equity resilience rural areas Agri-food systems constitute a huge proportion of global jobs and economies, but are failing to provide healthy diets, equitable livelihoods and sustainable practices. Women in rural areas are highly prominent in the sector and most vulnerable to climate impacts. Co-designing and bundling innovations could offer significant opportunities to achieve better outcomes. We reviewed the evidence base to explore how social and technical innovations can contribute to household resilience and gender equality. The findings suggest that combining different types of sociocultural and technical innovations into bundles (STIBs) offer a promising way forward, if they are appropriate for the context. This briefing provides a framework for agri-food practitioners to implement STIBs across contexts, stressing the importance of participative processes and understanding the contextual gender dynamics to build household resilience. Highlighting a huge evidence gap, the study calls for stronger evaluation and learning mechanisms and greater investment in rigorous, longitudinal studies. 2023-10-01 2023-11-09T04:21:13Z 2023-11-09T04:21:13Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132863 en Open Access application/pdf International Institute for Environment and Development Johnstone, K., Thazin Aung, M. and Barrett, S. 2023. Can innovations in agri-food systems deliver gender equity and resilience? International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Briefing October 2023. London: IIED.
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Can innovations in agri-food systems deliver gender equity and resilience?
title Can innovations in agri-food systems deliver gender equity and resilience?
title_full Can innovations in agri-food systems deliver gender equity and resilience?
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title_short Can innovations in agri-food systems deliver gender equity and resilience?
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climate resilience
monitoring and evaluation
agrifood systems
gender equity
resilience
rural areas
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