Gender Equality and Inclusion

The Accelerator plays a vital role in building an enabling external environment for gender equality and social inclusion research within food, land, and water systems. Our efforts will accelerate the growth and impact of gender equality and social inclusion, and will continue influencing the global discussion on gender equality and youth engagement.

Africa, Latin America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Small Island Nations in the Pacific

Challenges we’ll address

• Systemic, complex and deeply entrenched social inequalities and gender disparities in food, land, and water systems
• $10 trillion lost per year because of lack of investments on basic skills for women and in gender equality
• Widening income gap between men and women exarcerbated by the climate crisis, as households run by women lose US$53 billion per year more than men
• A pressing need for multi-actor, multi-sectoral, and evolutionary solutions to promote human right to gender equality and social inclusion

Interlinked support across CGIAR’s portfolio
We will work closely with the Breeding for Tomorrow, Climate Action, Diets and Nutrition, Food Frontiers and Security, Multifunctional Landscapes, Policy Innovations, Scaling for Impact, and Sustainable Animal and Aquatic Foods programs.

Working to share our capacity with

• Gender researchers
• CGIAR senior leaders
• Biophysical and social science collaborators

• Significant experience on gender and inclusion research on food-land-water systems, across 14 research Centers worldwide
• 100+ scientists whose research focuses on the nexus of gender equality and social inclusion and food-land-water systems — a specialization that remains scarce in the FLWS ecosystem
• Our role as convenor of the largest global gender network in food-land-water systems researchers
• Our global network and deep relationships with partners and stakeholders across the world.