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.f

Governments, private sector, civil society and other relevant stakeholders should facilitate women’s equal access to entrepreneurship and employment opportunities across food systems and related activities, leveraging existing business platforms to generate adequate income, as well as increase women’s participation in decision-making on the use of household income and opportunities to build and manage savings. This could include business management training, decision-making skill development, scaling of financial services and products both accessible and relevant to women’s needs, and tools to help men and women strengthen their intra-household communication.

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.