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Gender, resilience, and food systems

2023Bryan, Elizabeth; Ringler, Claudia; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

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Gender, resilience, and food systems

Research on the gender dimensions of resilience highlights differences in the ways that men and women experience disturbances, their resilience capacities, and their preferred responses. This chapter incorporates a food systems lens into a gender and resilience framework to identify key entry points to strengthen women’s and men’s food security and nutrition in the face of multiple, reoccurring shocks and stressors. Drawing on systematic reviews and case studies from the literature, this chapter finds that exposure and sensitivity to disturbances depend largely on gendered roles in food systems, including along agricultural value chains, and the food environments in which men and women live. Increasing women’s resilience capacities—which tend to be lower than men’s—through investments in education, information and financial services, employment opportunities, and women’s agency, can improve food security and nutrition outcomes and increase their contribution to food system resilience. Considering gender differences in needs and preferences in policy and intervention design is, therefore, essential to ensure that investments reach, benefit, and empower women as agents of change for greater resilience.

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2023

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Bryan, Elizabeth; Ringler, Claudia; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

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Bryan, Elizabeth; Ringler, Claudia; and Meinzen-Dick, Ruth. 2023. Gender, resilience, and food systems. In Resilience and Food Security in a Food Systems Context, eds. Chreistophe Béné and Stephen Devereux. Chapter 8, Pp. 239-280. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23535-1_8

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Stress; Education; Gender; Women's Empowerment; Agricultural Value Chains; Nutrition; Men; Resilience; Food Systems; Women

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Addressing gender and social dynamics to strengthen resilience for all

2019Theis, Sophie; Bryan, Elizabeth; Ringler, Claudia

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Addressing gender and social dynamics to strengthen resilience for all

2019 ReSAKSS Annual Trends and Outlook Report 127 In the face of various social, economic, health, political, and environmental risks, resource-poor people and communities in rural Africa employ diverse livelihood strategies to avoid, cope with, and adapt to multiple shocks and stressors. The African continent faces severe challenges related to increasing temperatures, water stress, and environmental degradation (Niang et al. 2014), and climate change exacerbates the risks posed by other threats such as rapid population growth, haphazard urbanization, conflict, extreme poverty, food and nutrition insecurity, public health threats, and corruption. In recognition of this confluence of risks and the diverse strategies people use to manage risk, the concept of resilience has taken hold in humanitarian and development communities as a unifying framework for identifying and planning for multiple, simultaneous risks that threaten rural people’s well-being. In addition, a resilience lens widens the time frame for considering risks. In so doing, it helps focus attention on the implications of humanitarian interventions on longer-term development and on safeguarding development gains against shocks, thereby helping to bridge the humanitarian and development sectors (Frankenberger et al. 2014; Béné et al. 2016).

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2019

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Theis, Sophie; Bryan, Elizabeth; Ringler, Claudia

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Theis, Sophie; Bryan, Elizabeth; and Ringler, Claudia. 2019. Addressing gender and social dynamics to strengthen resilience for all. In 2019 Annual trends and outlook report: Gender equality in rural Africa: From commitments to outcomes, eds. Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; and Njuki, Jemimah. Chapter 9, Pp. 126-139. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

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Eastern Africa; Middle Africa; Africa; Western Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Southern Africa; Gender; Agricultural Policies; Poverty; Rural Areas; Women

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293649_09 Source record

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Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

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Gender-sensitive, climate-smart agriculture for improved nutrition in Africa south of the Sahara

2017Bryan, Elizabeth; Theis, Sophie; Choufani, Jowel; De Pinto, Alessandro; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.; Ringler, Claudia

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Gender-sensitive, climate-smart agriculture for improved nutrition in Africa south of the Sahara

Chapter 9 tackles the nexus of CSA, gender, and nutrition, providing an integrated conceptual framework with entry points for action as well as information requirements to guide interventions in the context of climate change. The authors clearly argue that to go beyond incremental approaches to adaptation, these types of integrated approaches are essential in order to address the development challenges that the future climate creates.

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2017

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Bryan, Elizabeth; Theis, Sophie; Choufani, Jowel; De Pinto, Alessandro; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.; Ringler, Claudia

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Bryan, Elizabeth; Theis, Sophie; Choufani, Jowel; De Pinto, Alessandro; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; and Ringler, Claudia. 2017. Gender-sensitive, climate-smart agriculture for improved nutrition in Africa south of the Sahara. In A thriving agricultural sector in a changing climate: Meeting Malabo Declaration goals through climate-smart agriculture, eds. Alessandro De Pinto and John M. Ulimwengu. Chapter 9, pp. 114-135. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896292949_09

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Gender; Agricultural Sector; Sustainable Development Goals; Sustainable Livelihoods; Malnutrition; Nutrition; Climate Change Mitigation; Climate Change Adaptation; Food Security; Agricultural Productivity; Poverty; Resilience; Climate-smart Agriculture; Climate Change

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

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Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

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