Food-Security

​​​​​​​​​Food Security

​​The role of women is crucial throughout the agricultural value chain, from production, to food preparation, to distribution within the household or the community.

However, gender inequalities constrain women’s roles in agriculture and food production and undermine the achievement of food and nutrition security.

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SDC [355 kB]
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This guidance outlines key gender issues regarding food security and how these can be integrated into the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of cooperation strategies and project interventions.

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SDC [1.1 MB]
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This guidance sheet is one of a series written to support SDC staff in ensurlng that gender is taken into account- In this case, land governance. The numbers are striking: there are major disparities between women and men in most parts of the world when it comes to land ownership and stress to decisıon-making processes about land use.

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IDS/Bridge [2.5 MB]
The report also calls for a new, gender-aware definition of food secu... The report also calls for a new, gender-aware definition of food security, arguing that partial, apolitical and gender-blind diagnoses of the problem of food insecurity, and the failure to realise the right to food for all people, are leading to insufficient policy responses. More
SDC/ICFG [13.2 MB]
This paper is intended to make development practitioners aware of gen...

This paper is intended to make development practitioners aware of gender equality issues concerning land. It provides them with sustainable ways to address the issue in their day-to-day work across different thematic domains.

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SDC [355 kB]

This guidance outlines key gender issues regarding food security and how these can be integrated into the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of cooperation strategies and project interventions.

 
SDC [1.1 MB]

This guidance sheet is one of a series written to support SDC staff in ensurlng that gender is taken into account- In this case, land governance. The numbers are striking: there are major disparities between women and men in most parts of the world when it comes to land ownership and stress to decisıon-making processes about land use.

 
 
IDS/Bridge [2.5 MB]
The report also calls for a new, gender-aware definition of food security, arguing that partial, apolitical and gender-blind diagnoses of the problem of food insecurity, and the failure to realise the right to food for all people, are leading to insufficient policy responses.
 
 
SDC/ICFG [13.2 MB]

This paper is intended to make development practitioners aware of gender equality issues concerning land. It provides them with sustainable ways to address the issue in their day-to-day work across different thematic domains.

 

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