Evidence platform for agrifood systems and nutrition

Focus Area 3.6 Gender equality and women’s empowerment across food systems
Sub-focus Area 3.6.2 Promoting and acknowledging women as entrepreneurs and key actors in food systems

Recommendation Number: 3.6.2.b

Governments, in accordance with national legislations, should ensure women’s equal tenure rights and promote their equal access to and control over productive land, natural resources, inputs, productive tools, and access to education, training, markets, and information in line with the [Committee on World Food Security Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security] CFS VGGT.

The identified documents have been grouped into four categories: UN evidence-informed documents, UN normative guidance documents, UN operational/technical guidance documents and other documents that have been published by non-UN bodies.