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.c

Governments, private sector, intergovernmental organizations and other relevant stakeholders should enhance women’s roles in agriculture by promoting their participation and decision-making over what and how they choose to produce crops/food. Women should be offered equal access to extension and advisory services for crops and animal products that they produce or process, capacity-building to engage with traders, financial services (e.g. credit and savings mechanisms), and entrepreneurial opportunities across food systems.

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.