CFS side event - Transforming food systems: empowering women to deliver on Food Security and Nutrition
- The evidence showing how women’s and girls’ empowerment delivers on these outcomes
- The costs of failing to invest in women's roles in high-nutrient-value food chains and of ignoring women's triple work burden (household, reproductive and market)
- The enabling environment - policies, rights, laws and incentives to empower women in food systems to deliver food security and nutrition
Panelists include:
Lynn Brown, Senior Economist, World Bank/GenRD and SecureNutrition
Susan Carlson, Women’s Committee Facilitator, World Farmers’ Organization (WFO)
Susan Kaaria, Senior Gender Officer (Policy), Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division, FAO
Stanlake Samkange, Director, Policy, Programme and Innovation Division, WFP
Méthodes indigènes de préparation des aliments: quel est leur impact sur la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition?
Plusieurs communautés utilisent des méthodes indigènes pour la préparation des aliments. Chaque type de préparation peut avoir plusieurs conséquences au niveau de la configuration socio-économique du ménage. Pouvons-nous considérer les méthodes indigènes de préparation des aliments comme une option viable pour parvenir à la sécurité alimentaire et à la nutrition dans les communautés rurales pauvres?
Gender and Agriculture: Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps
Women make essential contributions to agriculture in developing countries, where they constitute approximately 43 percent of the agricultural labor force. However, female farmers typically have lower output per unit of land and are much less likely to be active in commercial farming than their male...
Final study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on rural women and the right to food
The present study examines the right to food of rural women by underlining the international legal framework applicable to rural women, analysing the patterns of discrimination harming them, proposing strategies and policies for their legal protection and emphasizing good practices. The study has a...
Using online platforms to increase access to open data and share best practices of monitoring women’s land rights
Given the rapid expansion of the internet and the increasing number of users, including in the global South, the full potential of online platforms for promoting inclusive consultation of issues of high global interest is certainly not yet realised. An online discussion is being organised to share...
Online Discussion from 6-20 February: Connecting people, sharing knowledge and increasing transparency. Using online platforms to increase access to open data, share best practices for monitoring women's land rights
Given the rapid expansion of the internet and the increasing number of users, including in the global South, the full potential of online platforms for promoting inclusive consultation of issues of high global interest is certainly not yet realised. An online discussion was organised to share views and perspectives on how online platforms could be used more creatively and effectively to share experiences on a key area where information and lessons learned through various interventions from around the world are generally dispersed, that is the area of monitoring women’s land rights.
The objective of the online discussion was twofold: (a) engage a collective reflection on ways of optimising the use of online platforms in efforts to promote equitable and sustainable natural governance and social justice; and, (b) to share experiences on approaches to monitoring women’s land rights.
The discussion was running simultaneously on landportal.info and across the following five platforms:
- Wikigender (http://www.wikigender.org/index.php/New_Home);
- E-agriculture (http://www.e-agriculture.org);
- AIMS (http://aims.fao.org);
- FSN-Forum (http://www.fao.org/fsnforum);
- Open-Development list (http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-development).
This discussion will be facilitated by the International Land Coalitions (ILC) (www.landcoalition.org) Women’s Land Rights team.
On the origins of gender roles: Women and the plough
This paper seeks to better understand the historic origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historic gender division of labor and the evolution and persistence of...
Women in agriculture and food security: How can we turn rhetoric into reality?
Ce débat en ligne a pour but d’enrichir la discussion qui sera stimulée par le lancement officiel le 7 mars de la publication phare de la FAO Situation mondiale de l’alimentation et de l’agriculture (SOFA) 2010-11 sur le thème Women in agriculture: closing the gender gap for development et la célébration par la FAO de la Journée internationale de la femme le 8 mars, qui abordera également ce thème.
Gender in agriculture sourcebook
The Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook provides an up-to-date understanding of gender issues and a rich compilation of compelling evidence of good practices and lessons learned to guide practitioners in integrating gender dimensions into agricultural projects and programs. The Sourcebook is a joint...
Gendered Impacts of Conservation Agriculture and Paradox of Herbicide Use among Smallholder Farmers
Conservation Agriculture (CA) is increasingly taking a central stage in agricultural policies and rural development among developing countries like Zambia. The challenge of gender gaps in agriculture has persisted despite efforts of gender mainstreaming. This paper assesses gender based impacts of...