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

This 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...

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Autores principales: Adam, Rahma, Dam Lam, Rodolfo, Lozano, Denise, McDougall, Cynthia, Rajaratnam, Surendran, Ouko, Kevin, Manyungwa-Pasani, Chikondi, Forsythe, Lora, Rossignoli, Cristiano
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159273
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author Adam, Rahma
Dam Lam, Rodolfo
Lozano, Denise
McDougall, Cynthia
Rajaratnam, Surendran
Ouko, Kevin
Manyungwa-Pasani, Chikondi
Forsythe, Lora
Rossignoli, Cristiano
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Dam Lam, Rodolfo
Forsythe, Lora
Lozano, Denise
Manyungwa-Pasani, Chikondi
McDougall, Cynthia
Ouko, Kevin
Rajaratnam, Surendran
Rossignoli, Cristiano
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Dam Lam, Rodolfo
Lozano, Denise
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Rajaratnam, Surendran
Ouko, Kevin
Manyungwa-Pasani, Chikondi
Forsythe, Lora
Rossignoli, Cristiano
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description This 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.
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spelling CGSpace1592732026-01-24T02:17:17Z Using a sustainable food systems framework to examine gender equality and women’s empowerment in aquatic food systems Adam, Rahma Dam Lam, Rodolfo Lozano, Denise McDougall, Cynthia Rajaratnam, Surendran Ouko, Kevin Manyungwa-Pasani, Chikondi Forsythe, Lora Rossignoli, Cristiano gender inequality women's empowerment aquatic food systems fish food systems framework power dynamics This 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. 2024-11-05T17:29:54Z 2024-11-05T17:29:54Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159273 en Open Access application/pdf Frontiers Media S.A. Rahma 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.
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women's empowerment
aquatic food systems
fish
food systems framework
power dynamics
Adam, Rahma
Dam Lam, Rodolfo
Lozano, Denise
McDougall, Cynthia
Rajaratnam, Surendran
Ouko, Kevin
Manyungwa-Pasani, Chikondi
Forsythe, Lora
Rossignoli, Cristiano
Using a sustainable food systems framework to examine gender equality and women’s empowerment in aquatic food systems
title Using a sustainable food systems framework to examine gender equality and women’s empowerment in aquatic food systems
title_full Using a sustainable food systems framework to examine gender equality and women’s empowerment in aquatic food systems
title_fullStr Using a sustainable food systems framework to examine gender equality and women’s empowerment in aquatic food systems
title_full_unstemmed Using a sustainable food systems framework to examine gender equality and women’s empowerment in aquatic food systems
title_short Using a sustainable food systems framework to examine gender equality and women’s empowerment in aquatic food systems
title_sort using a sustainable food systems framework to examine gender equality and women s empowerment in aquatic food systems
topic gender inequality
women's empowerment
aquatic food systems
fish
food systems framework
power dynamics
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159273
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