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This review highlights the importance of gender as a social construct and gender mainstreamingGender mainstreaming as a strategy to support the pillars of food and nutrition securityFood and nutrition security. Using gender as a cross-cutting issue, the review draws on multidisciplinary studies and reports to explain core gender concepts, commitments to human rightsHuman rights and the UN Sustainable development goalsSustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 2 (zero hunger); SDG 3 (health for all) and SDG 5 (gender equality)Gender equality and the value of promoting policy coherence. Socialization creates a gender division of labor, ascribing specific roles for women and men in the family. This results in a gender system that produces social, economic, and political inequalities for women as a group, as well as higher levels of poverty. These gender-related inequalities also have a negative impact on rural women in agricultural food production and their position in the food system. These realities negatively impact food security especially in poor female-headed households with dependent children, older parents and family members who have a disability. Their rights to food and nutrition are also at risk. Gender and the four pillars of food security are examined against the background of global crisesGlobal crises (conflictsConflicts, climate changeClimate change and the impact on vulnerable people living in Caribbean and Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS)Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and in a Least Developed and Landlocked (LLDCs)Least Developed and Landlocked (LLDCs) countries like Botswana in Southern Africa). Despite some best practices of gender mainstreaming in the food system, gender-blindness was also evident. To close policy gaps, the review recommended gender mainstreaming as an additional food security pillarFood security pillar; policy coherence between human rights’ commitments for women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons to improve food security; multidisciplinary research partnerships and capacity building for gender mainstreaming in food systems.

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Food and Nutrition Security Policies and the Importance of Gender

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    2025年

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  • Leith L. Dunn

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This review highlights the importance of gender as a social construct and gender mainstreamingGender mainstreaming as a strategy to support the pillars of food and nutrition securityFood and nutrition security. Using gender as a cross-cutting issue, the review draws on multidisciplinary studies and reports to explain core gender concepts, commitments to human rightsHuman rights and the UN Sustainable development goalsSustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 2 (zero hunger); SDG 3 (health for all) and SDG 5 (gender equality)Gender equality and the value of promoting policy coherence. Socialization creates a gender division of labor, ascribing specific roles for women and men in the family. This results in a gender system that produces social, economic, and political inequalities for women as a group, as well as higher levels of poverty. These gender-related inequalities also have a negative impact on rural women in agricultural food production and their position in the food system. These realities negatively impact food security especially in poor female-headed households with dependent children, older parents and family members who have a disability. Their rights to food and nutrition are also at risk. Gender and the four pillars of food security are examined against the background of global crisesGlobal crises (conflictsConflicts, climate changeClimate change and the impact on vulnerable people living in Caribbean and Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS)Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and in a Least Developed and Landlocked (LLDCs)Least Developed and Landlocked (LLDCs) countries like Botswana in Southern Africa). Despite some best practices of gender mainstreaming in the food system, gender-blindness was also evident. To close policy gaps, the review recommended gender mainstreaming as an additional food security pillarFood security pillar; policy coherence between human rights’ commitments for women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons to improve food security; multidisciplinary research partnerships and capacity building for gender mainstreaming in food systems.