Gender Integration in Food and Nutrition Security

INTRODUCTION

Women in developing countries play a crucial role in meeting the food and nutrition needs of their families through the three pillars of food security which are; food production, economic access to food, and nutrition security. Despite women's importance, they are constrained by lower access to land, credit and extension advice, as well as by domestic responsibilities. These constraints have consequences for productivity, efficiency and environmental sustainability. To address these, different approaches can be taken to make the design of agricultural projects gender-sensitive.

This course provides guidance on how to design and implement agriculture policies and programmes that are gender-responsive, sustainable, contributing to gender equality, and therefore able to improve food and nutrition security.

DURATION

5 days        

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the training, the learner will be able to:

• Understand the gender-differentiated roles in agriculture and food security.
• Understand the gender-differentiated impacts in agriculture and food security.
• Identify the gender gaps in the agricultural sector that make women particularly vulnerable to food insecurity as well as show they hinder agricultural development in rural communities.
• Identify appropriate responses to close the gender gap in the agricultural sector in order to achieve gender equality and food security.
• Understand the need and options for integrating of gender perspectives into agricultural and food security policies.
• Understand and minimize gender barriers in the food industry.