Recommendations for "Gender (133 results)"
Promote gender equality and women’s empowerment, ensuring equal access to livestock productive resources, capacity building and education for women and foster women’s equal participation in decision-making.
2016
Monitor health inequalities at national and subnational levels to identify geographic areas and subpopulations where prevalence is highest, with intervention priority to the most affected areas and population groups, often adolescents, women and children living in poorest households in rural areas but also urban areas.
2020
Promote breastfeeding, regulate marketing of breastmilk substitutes, and ensure access to nutritious foods by infants to prevent adverse perinatal outcomes in undernourished women. Through balanced energy and protein supplementation, increased daily energy and protein intake, and optimizing breast feeding through early initiation and exclusive breastfeeding practices, as well as various social protection programmes, may increase food security and reduce women’s risk of becoming undernourished due to periods of pregnancy and lactation.
2020
Strengthen food supply chains under humanitarian conditions. Coordinate action to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance and avoid widespread famine, especially for millions of civilians living in conflict situations, including women and children. Expand emergency food assistance and social protection programs to ensure access to nutritious food for the poor and vulnerable, as they have been hardest hit by the pandemic.
2020
More dedicated and comprehensive policies and development approaches are required that specifically target women’s economic empowerment and nutrition including: Access to reproductive health services and nutrition services; Care services; Skills training and access to employment and Maternity protection and social protection
2019
Access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food must be framed as a human right, with priority given to the most vulnerable. Policies that promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture and food systems are needed, with special attention to the food security and nutrition of children under five, school-age children, adolescent girls and women in order to halt the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition.
2018
Prevention of wasting requires addressing the underlying causes of malnutrition. Breastfeeding support and nutrition counselling for families – particularly regarding how to improve the quality of complementary foods and feeding practices – and early care for common childhood illnesses are essential.
2018
It will not be possible to end all forms of malnutrition without ensuring access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round. This will require expanding the reach of social protection policies to address inequalities and ensuring that they are nutrition- and gender-sensitive in terms of: targeting; design; and in the
identification of complementary health care
and agriculture interventions to enhance
nutrition outcomes.
2018
Participatory, inclusive and equitable gender-based approaches must guide the entire policy/programme cycle, putting vulnerable groups at the centre of responses.
2018
Supporting climate resilience-building efforts requires site-specific solutions that are owned by the communities that they intend to help. A participatory, inclusive, equitable and gender-based approach is critical to bringing local stakeholders together to identify needs through a better understanding of the climate vulnerabilities and risks faced by communities and individuals. Likewise, it is important to take advantage of autonomous (i.e. local) knowledge and practices when addressing climate variability and extremes. Engaging local people and encouraging open community consultation when designing and implementing interventions helps to build community ownership and ensure long-term sustainability, while also taking into account cultural and gender issues.
2018
A range of locally appropriate climate-resilient options should be designed and implemented through inclusive and gender-sensitive participatory processes. These should be present throughout, beginning with the initial vulnerability and risk analysis, continuing through the prioritization of choices and moving forward to the implementation of measures, taking into account the availability of local resources and the anticipated costs and benefits in the short and long term.
2018
Building resilience to climate variability and extremes requires gender-sensitive policies, planning, budgets, technologies, practices and processes accessible to both men and women farmers. Building resilience thus requires
a solid understanding of gender-based
differences and interventions that are risk- and
gender-responsive.
2018
Acknowledging the risks to nutrition from changing climate variability and extremes is critical in creating more effective safety nets or social protection schemes that are responsive to climate risks. Interventions should also consider advocacy across all agencies and actors in the public, private and civil society sectors to protect and build coping and adaptation strategies for women and other vulnerable groups.
2018
Food security and nutrition policies and Programmes must take into consideration the specific needs and priorities of men, women, boys and girls, and target interventions in a gender-responsive way that leaves no one behind.
2017
Ensure that all people are treated fairly, recognizing their respective situations, needs, constraints, and the vital role played by women.
2014
Eliminate all measures and practices that discriminate or violate rights on the basis of gender.
2014
Advance women’s equal tenure rights, and their equal access to and control over productive land, natural resources, inputs, productive tools; and promote access to extension, advisory, and financial services, education, training, markets, and information.
2014
Adopt innovative and/or proactive approaches, measures, and processes to enhance women’s meaningful participation in partnerships, decision-making, leadership roles, and the equitable sharing of benefits.
2014
Addressing the needs and constraints of smallholders – women and men – in a gender sensitive manner in policies, laws and regulations, and strategies to address capacity development through improved access to inputs, advisory and financial services including insurance, education, extension, training, infrastructure and access to markets.
2014
Smallholders and their organisations should apply the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems], with particular attention to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and youth, by (1) Increasing productivity and income, adding more value in their operations and using natural resources sustainably and efficiently, where applicable; (2) Strengthening their resilience;(3) Managing risks, relevant to their context and circumstances, to maximize positive, and avoid negative impacts on food security and nutrition; (4) Participating in policy, programme, and monitoring processes at all levels; (5) Complying with national laws and regulations and acting with due diligence to avoid infringing on human rights.
2014
All stakeholders have a role in improving data and information collection, management, and distribution, including improving collection of gender disaggregated data. Science and evidence-based analysis and data, with supporting capacity and infrastructure for analysis are integral for targeted interventions encouraging sustainability in agriculture and food systems and contributing to food security and nutrition.
2014
All stakeholders have a role in promoting gender equality and the economic empowerment of women to support their access to productive resources and to the benefits from agricultural investments.
2014
Strengthen transparency in price formation processes and access to markets to improve the ability of all farmers, with special attention to smallholders, women and young farmers, to benefit from market returns to their labor and financial investments and reinforce their role in the food value chain.
2017
Increase opportunities for women and youth in the agricultural sector by strengthening their active involvement in farm ownership, farm management, marketing and other agricultural and agri-food related activities, as well as improving equal access to land and other assets, so as to improve incomes and livelihoods. Facilitate international fora for sharing information on relevant policy changes and successes of policy measures which empower women and youth in the agriculture and food systems in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals on gender equality.
2016
Promote secure land tenure for women in line with the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) in relevant ODA programmes, including through existing G7 land partnerships.
2016
Support the establishment, improvement and enforcement of legal, regulatory and social systems ensuring women’s equal rights and access to resources and productive assets including financial and extension services, including through ongoing initiatives such as the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition.
2016
Support the creation of decent employment opportunities with equitable economic returns for women in agriculture and food systems including selection, processing, distribution and sales of agricultural products, and equipping women with needed skills through vocational education and training. Increasing economic opportunities with higher and fair returns, both on- and off-farm.
2016
Promote infrastructure, better services and the use of context-adapted technologies that will free up women’s time, including irrigation, multiple-use water systems, increased energy access and innovative and sustainable agricultural production and processing technologies.
2016
Promote the use of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and other outcome metrics for women’s empowerment, and systematically disaggregate results by sex.
2016
Support the collection and application of SDG2 indicators, in particular the expansion of the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) to improve disaggregation of data, including by sex and rural and urban location; promote the inclusion of indicators of dietary diversity, especially among children and women of reproductive age, in household surveys.
2016
There is a need to place agriculture and rural development – together with other policies – at the centre of sustainable economic growth by strengthening the role of the agricultural households and smallholder farms and their access to land in many parts of the world, encouraging women participation, gender equality and young and beginning farmers.
2009
Implement effective actions for the empowerment of women and youth in the rural-urban continuum [policies, technical assistance, capacity building and investments that create new decent work and agri-entrepreneurship opportunities for women and youth and support their empowerment as active participants and leaders at all levels of food systems and institutions].
2021
Accelerate policies fostering territorial and gender sensitive adaptation, promoting more integrated farming systems, climate sensitive, agro-ecological and other innovative approaches as appropriate, supporting biodiversity as a source of climate resilience, fast-tracking the implementation of the agriculture and food-systems related parts of adaptation plans, as well as promoting effective funding from climate finance to foster climate adaptation in the food and agriculture sector of developing countries in the light of different national circumstances.
2021
Overcome obstacles which prevent women from being equal contributors to and beneficiaries of FVCs. In particular, the promotion of women’s empowerment through equitable access to innovation and skills training is important to the sustainable development and growth of the agro-food sector.
2019
Improve the integration of family farmers, smallholders, women and young people living in rural areas into related value chains and transparent and efficient markets.
2018
Promote institutional innovation in improving agricultural production systems, giving full play to the active role of all types of food producers, enhancing the degree of sustainable agricultural intensification and organization, and better enabling family farmers and smallholders, in particular, women and young people, to integrate into the food value chain
2016
Improve access to inclusive financial services, loans or credits, in particular for family farmers, smallholders and women, to boost sustainable agricultural production, including offering innovative financial products, promoting agricultural insurance scheme and risk management tools, and develop inclusive financial system for farmers.
2016
Promote technical skill upgrading, especially for smallholder farmers and rural workers, through training programmes focused on innovative farming practices and technologies that promote sustainable production, business skills, as well as basic education and best practices to cope with downstream market concentration.
2016
Increase women’s participation in the workforce and reduce youth unemployment by supporting food system employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in particular for smallholders and especially for women and youth through training and skills development.
2015
Special efforts are needed to promote training programmes and skills development and improved access to productive resources for smallholders, women and youth. Explore mechanisms, including south-south and triangular cooperation, to share successful experiences in skills anticipation and matching, apprenticeship and work-linked training pathways and improved access to productive assets.
2015
Responsible investment in sustainable and resilient food systems should increase productivity to expand food supplies and increase incomes and quality jobs in rural areas, especially for women and youth, reducing poverty and contribute to the G20’s inclusive growth agenda.
2015
Governments should recognize in law the individual and collective rights of smallholders, including their right to organize democratically, to have voice in policy debates and to defend their interests, with gender- and age-balanced representation. Securing such rights is important not only intrinsically for them but also in contributing to building the political will necessary to implement the proposed National Smallholder Investment Strategies.
2013
Governments must guarantee tenure security for smallholder farmers over land and natural resources, by implementing the Voluntary guidelines on responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries, and forests. They must also take relevant measures to improve cooperation and governance in the management of common property resources, including open-range pastoral resources, biodiversity, water, forestry and fisheries. Women’s rights to land and natural resources use must be developed and strengthened. Governments should improve access to land by various means including land reform processes, making use of the lessons learned from other countries’ experiences.
2013
To support their investment efforts, smallholder farmers need adequate access to public goods on both the production and consumption sides of the household, with benefits reinforcing each other. On the production side, public investments are needed, for example, in water management facilities and soil conservation. On the consumption side, public investments are needed in health services, education, water and sanitation, and social protection. Gender-specific support services are needed to recognize the differential roles of household members in production, consumption and the reproduction of the family unit over time.
2013
Enhancing gender equality: Developing the skills and the knowledge of rural women and girls through training in literacy and numeracy or vocational training enables them to participate more in development interventions and business opportunities.
2016
Targeted upgrading of technology, skills and capabilities to enhance employability and entrepreneurial capacity in rural areas: With a particular emphasis on youth, women, landless workers and other groups facing substantial risk of exclusion, measures to enhance employability include targeted improvement of key technological skills, vocational training for jobs in the commercial sector and basic life skills for success in working environments.
2016
Increase women’s decision-making power and control over resources and assets (such as credit, land, training, transport and technology) within the household and communities
2020
Encourage private sector initiatives to foster women’s empowerment, including adoption of standards for gender equity, women’s empowerment, and women’s leadership
2020
Governments, therefore, need to devote more resources to improving educational opportunities for girls, family planning, and reducing infant and child mortality.
2019
Providing the conditions necessary to scale local successes into large-scale, transformative initiatives. This includes fostering the underlying social and economic conditions and institutions, particularly those relating to stakeholder engagement, land tenure, gender equality, and the availability of sustained investment and infrastructure.
2017
Use market-based incentives and innovation programmes to support poor people’s food purchasing power and women’s bargaining power – and enable them to make better-informed food choices through training, labelling, communication and digitalization.
2021
In creating opportunities to diversify, attention to women and youth is important. This implies the promotion of more equal access to productive assets between generations and between men and women.
2021
Technical and vocational training provided to youth, adolescents and women has proved helpful in strengthening entrepreneurial activities and enabling entry into self-employment activities. Further public efforts should seek to reduce business start-up costs and improve the business climate.
2021
Facilitate small-scale local food processing industries that provide new bottom-of-the-pyramid business and employment opportunities – especially for women and youth – and that increase access to a wider variety of food products.
2021
Develop social protection programmes that recognize and compensate young people’s unpaid contributions to food systems through their engagement in reproductive work and in volunteer and community development activities. Consider ways to legitimize and value care work, especially that performed by young women in the context of food systems (e.g. through the provision of public childcare, parental leave subsidies and other paid community service programming).
2021
Invest in focused initiatives that support the particular financing needs of women and youth entrepreneurs.
2022
Prioritize capacity-building for MSMEs to build and expand existing localized value chains and create an enabling environment, with a specific focus on women, youth and other underrepresented entrepreneurs.
2022
Maintain and strengthen support for civil society organizations (including producer organizations, consumer groups, women’s forums, youth groups and indigenous groups) that are working on food systems, and enable them to bring a balancing power and accountability to the interests of business and the State.
2022
When repurposing public support to make a healthy diet less costly, policymakers will have to avoid potential inequality trade-offs that may emerge if farmers are not in a position to specialize in the production of nutritious foods due to resource constraints. This could be particularly the case with small-scale farmers, women and youth.
2022
Amplify and empower historically excluded voices with special attention to and engagement of women, Indigenous Peoples, smallholder farmers and other small-scale producers, and youth.
2021
Women’s participation, along with that of other vulnerable groups, should be strengthened across resource governance, including in clean energy systems, water systems, landscapes, crop development, and digital innovations.
2022
Improving women’s status and gender equality positively influence the nutritional status of women and their families. Therefore, eliminating structural gender inequalities and unleashing women’s potential can play a fundamental role in improving access to affordable healthy diets.
2023
Multifaceted and targeted territorial planning to address gender-related challenges to access affordable healthy diets (e.g., efficient transport systems to reduce the time between home and work; strategically locating city food outlets that supply nutritious, diverse food on routes that women take in their daily lives).
2023
Investing in improved and gender-sensitive wholesale market infrastructure (e.g. in territorial food markets) could improve supply of fresh products and facilitate compliance with food safety and quality standards by smallholder producers, incentivize producers to supplyhigher-quality foods that could bring them better returns, and increase the quantity and variety of food supply through vertical and horizontal scaling.
2023
The closure of the gender gap in rural areas is a key consideration for any food production policy oriented towards improving access to affordable healthy diets.
2023
E-commerce platforms can contribute to women’s empowerment by enabling women to earn an independent source of income, work from home, and set their own working hours.
2023
Ensure that social policy pays specific attention to women’s role, time burdens and other existing burdens in ensuring food security and nutrition; envisages men taking on a greater role in food security and nutrition and addresses adequate compensation of care workers and community health workers, while avoiding arrangements that exacerbate women’s “triple burden” of care.
2023
Fill data gaps (particularly related to diets, micronutrient status, food composition) by systematically collecting information to identify which groups have the poorest food security and nutrition outcomes and food system opportunities in different contexts, paying special attention to historically marginalized groups, women and disadvantaged regions.
2023
Mainstream gender, equity and intersectionality considerations into all aspects of research.
2023
Governments, intergovernmental and regional organizations should implement national, regional and international strategies to promote the inclusive participation of farmers and fishers and fish workers, including small-scale farmers, indigenous peoples and local communities, peasants and other small-scale food producers, food systems workers, including women, in community, national, regional and international markets.
2021
Governments should take equity and equality into consideration when acting to address food environments and ensure members of vulnerable communities, indigenous peoples and local communities, peasants, pastoralists, small-scale fisher folks, agricultural and food workers, rural and urban women and youth, people with disabilities, and people facing constraints due to age and illness, have sufficient access to diverse food that contribute to healthy diets.
2021
Governments and other stakeholders should protect, promote and support exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months and continued breastfeeding with appropriate complementary feeding up to two years and beyond, as well as encourage the establishment of milk banks and protect and support breastfeeding for working mothers, supporting and promoting maternity protection and paid parental leave.
2021
Governments should ensure equal opportunities and promote equal participation between women and men in policy decision-making, supporting women especially in rural context, and ensuring gender equality in leadership roles in decision making bodies – parliaments, ministries and local authorities at district and community levels.
2021
Governments and stakeholders should foster strategies to engage with men and boys to support women and girls in nutrition as a joint responsibility.
2021
Governments should promote an enabling environment to generate social, economic and cultural changes towards gender equality with specific gender responsive policies, programmes, institutions which should include adaptation of public services to support women, and advocacy campaigns to deal with the various forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, particularly in rural areas.
2021
Governments, intergovernmental organizations, private sector, civil society, particularly women’s organizations and other relevant stakeholders should promote the empowerment of women and girls by supporting equitable and equal access to primary and secondary education, literacy programmes, comprehensive health services and other social services to increase household nutritional status.
2021
Governments and other stakeholders should attach a great importance and are encouraged to promote gender equality and create the necessary conditions for women to fully realize their potential, in line with national legislation and universally agreed human rights instruments.
2021
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 CFS VGGT.
2021
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.
2021
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.
2021
Governments, non-governmental organizations, private sector and other relevant stakeholders should promote and increase access of women to time saving technologies that could help improve their livelihoods.
2021
Governments should promote the design of context-specific policies to reduce digital gaps among rural women and promote cooperation schemes to facilitate rural women’s access to the application of digital tools, digital infrastructure, and technological solutions to improve their productive activities.
2021
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.
2021
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.
2021
Governments, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, development partners and other relevant stakeholders should acknowledge and advance the nutritional well-being of women and girls throughout the lifecycle, including through the provision of health, nutrition and other essential services.
2021
Promoting and supporting that national development strategies are informed by participatory gender and age analyses, and that women and girls throughout the lifecycle, with compromised nutritional status and higher levels of deprivation, access gender-responsive socialprotection programmes and benefits.
2021
Governments and other key stakeholder should acknowledge and vale women’s crucial contributions as caregivers, in agriculture, food production an preparation, recognizing women significant time and workload commitments, including unpaid care work and domestic chores at the household level. This should be addressed through the effective implementation of gender-sensitive and transformative policies, social protection programmes and other benefits, and the promotion of equitable sharing of domestic chores.
2021
Governments should create an enabling policy framework, as appropriate, and supportive practices to protect and support breastfeeding, ensuring that decisions to breastfeed do not result in women losing their economic security or any of their rights. This should include promoting and implementing policies and programmes ensuring maternity protection and paid parental leave and removing workplace-related barriers to optimal breastfeeding (lack of breaks, facilities, and services).
2021
Support the optimal combination and reconciliation of family and work life, including through economic empowerment of women, social protection programmes, including among others child and family support payments, and parental leave, establishment of minimum wages, reduction of the gender pay gap, and quality job and pensions as well as redistribution of unpaid care work.
2021
Strengthen policies, programmes and actions that eliminate structural barriers to address root causes of gender inequality, in particular by considering that laws and policies to support inter alia equal access to natural resources, finance and public services, respecting and protecting women’s knowledge, as well as eliminating all forms of violence, including gender-based violence and discrimination against women, and promoting women’s empowerment.
2019
Undertake holistic assessments of employment and labour conditions in agriculture and food systems, disaggregated by gender and age, in support of: i) decent labour policies and regulations for sustainable agriculture and food systems; ii) improved livelihoods, health and social and legal protection of farmers and other food system workers, particularly migrant workers and people in vulnerable situations.
2019
Provide producers, and in particular small scale producers and women, with public policies and private investments, for diversification and integration of their production, including providing support during the process of transitioning, in a coherent manner, as appropriate, according to, and dependent on national context and capacity, to more sustainable food systems.
2019
Promote agroecological and other innovative approaches including, as appropriate, through the use of digital technologies and other Information and Communication Technologies as an entry point for the involvement of youth, women, indigenous peoples and local communities in agriculture and food systems.
2019
Promote advisory and agricultural extension services, and strengthen training programmes to improve the implementation of agroecological and other innovative approaches, which could include ecological and environmental-friendly alternatives to agrochemical use as a mean to achieve food security and nutrition while protecting the environment. This should cover all agricultural sectors, using a holistic approach and using methods such as farmer field schools (FFS) and producer-to-producer networks.
2019
Take appropriate measures to promote the human rights of all and recognize the importance of the values and interests of peasants, indigenous peoples, local communities, family farmers and other people working in rural areas, particularly in maintaining, expressing, controlling, protecting and developing their knowledge, including traditional knowledge, taking into account its specificity, for example through knowledge systems embedded in agricultural heritage systems, while recognizing the critical role of rural and indigenous women in the context of food security and nutrition.
2019
Support the horizontal sharing of knowledge and experiences building on existing producers’ organizations and networks, including processes designed specifically by and for women, youth, indigenous peoples and local communities.
2019
Take appropriate measures to promote the human rights of all and recognize the importance of the values and interests of peasants, indigenous peoples, local communities, family farmers and other people working in rural areas, particularly in maintaining, expressing, controlling, protecting and developing their knowledge, including traditional knowledge, taking into account its specificity, for example through knowledge systems embedded in agricultural heritage systems, while recognizing the critical role of rural and indigenous women in the context of food security and nutrition.
2019
Support the horizontal sharing of knowledge and experiences building on existing producers’ organizations and networks, including processes designed specifically by and for women, youth, indigenous peoples and local communities.
2019
Strengthen public research to address the needs of farmers and all other people working and living in rural areas, in particular women, youth, elders, indigenous peoples and local communities.
2019
Support processes that facilitate and prioritize the active participation of people most at risk of food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms and people in vulnerable situations, including women, youth, indigenous peoples and local communities, in decision-making that affects them at the local, national and global levels, through the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security.
2019
Promote the empowerment of women, particularly small-scale food producers and family farmers, and their organizations, by supporting collective action, negotiation and leadership skills, to increase access to and equity in the control over land and natural resources, according to national legislation.
2019
Increase access to, inter alia, education, appropriate extension and financial services, methodologies and technologies that are adequate for women, youth and elders, and full participation in related policy processes.
2019
Improve market access and value addition for farmers, especially for women.
2023
Improve stakeholder engagement in an inclusive manner, especially listening to women’s and Indigenous Peoples’ voices, throughout the [environmental] restoration process.
2023
Ensure equitable benefit sharing from restoration initiatives, especially towards women, respecting Indigenous Peoples’ customary rights, and providing free, prior and informed consent.
2023
Protect land tenure and address challenges related to land tenure security especially for women and Indigenous Peoples.
2023
At the individual or community level, protect land rights for vulnerable groups, including women, youth and Indigenous Peoples, to address existing inequalities in access and in ownership.
2023
Ensure that the rights of vulnerable groups, especially women and Indigenous Peoples, have their rights protected, restored or improved – in particular, equal rights regarding access to ownership of assets like land.
2023
Improve education in rural communities, especially for women and girls, to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education, and promote lifelong learning opportunities.
2023
Improve the capacity of students, especially for women and girls, in low- and middle-income countries to achieve higher education in the fields of biology, agronomy, crop science, veterinary science, nutrition and soil sciences and other sciences relevant for the transformation of agrifood systems.
2023
Ensure that women’s needs, challenges and priorities are included and budgeted for in agrifood system and climate-related policies.
2023
Improve social safety net programmes to consider nutritional needs, especially for women, and promote healthy diets.
2023
Improve women’s access to financial services and weather index-based insurance.
2023
Improve the collection of sex-disaggregated data in agrifood systems.
2023
Invest in the systematic collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated data in the agriculture and environment sectors, including the assessment on the impact of different climate actions and risks on women and girls.
2023
Promote production and consumption of biofortified or fortified staple foods as complementary nutrition strategies where needed. These foods can be an equitable and affordable means of delivering nutrients to especially vulnerable populations, including women and children.
2024
Making innovative financing instruments more accessible to population groups facing constraints in accessing financial services, such as women, Indigenous Peoples, smallholder farmers and small and medium agrifood enterprises, will be key for financing to work for food security and nutrition.
2024
Tackle structural inequalities, ensuring interventions are pro-poor and inclusive by empowering populations in situations of vulnerability and marginalization; reducing gender inequalities by supporting women’s economic activities and the equitable distribution of resources; promoting the inclusion of women, youth and other populations in situations of marginalization; guaranteeing access to essential services; implementing fiscal reforms to reduce income inequality.
2024
Enhance decent work and employment in urban and peri-urban food systems, including by providing childcare spaces within traditional markets, promoting occupational safety and health, guaranteeing labour rights, etc.
2024
Promote nutrition in health services, particularly for women of childbearing age and pregnant and breastfeeding women, and in paediatric services. These should be informed by the lived experience of urban and peri-urban residents.
2024
Governments should engage in innovative partnerships with the private sector to commercialize more smallholders and SMEs. These might include public–private partnerships to help deliver financial services and insurance to small farms, and organizing small farms into groups for marketing purposes.
2017
Respect, protect and fulfil the rights of women working in agriculture, including the livestock sector;
2016
Facilitate the adaptation to and mitigation of climate change in agricultural systems in line with the Paris Agreement, and with particular support for smallholders and pastoralists, and women’s role in food systems;
2016
Investments in reproductive health (including family planning) education and services for young girls
2019
Raise women’s voices in key processes such as negotiations with market actors, research decisions, and political processes
2020
Ensure that food system transformations do not disempower women by increasing workloads or reducing decision-making power, but rather create a virtuous cycle of inclusion and empowerment to benefit women and men
2020
Include women and consider women’s needs and preferences in the design of institutions, including property rights, financial institutions, and access to information and education
2020
Collect and evaluate more data relevant to women’s empowerment within food systems, including on capacities, motivations, and roles in the value chains
2020
Increased farm mechanization to reduce labor intensity while increasing production
2019