Toward gender transformative change in agrifood systems faced with climate change

This conference brings together academics, practitioners, advocacy groups, and policymakers from around the world to present their visions of what a world defined by the principles of feminist economics would look like. The conference will facilitate deliberations on alternative theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence regarding strategies adopted by feminists. It will provide a space for debates on policy proposals on what steps are and could be taken to realize these visions.

CGIAR at IAFFE

Climate change affects men and women in different ways. Structural inequalities (formal and informal) limit women’s access to resources, services, and agency, which means women are more negatively affected by climate change or have more limited resilience capacities. If climate-smart and climate-resilient interventions do not adequately take gender differences into account, they might exacerbate gender inequalities in food systems.

The CGIAR Gender Impact Platform is a part of this year’s IAFFE conference and has organized a symposium on Saturday, July 8th, to answer the question of how we can enable gender and social transformative change in agrifood systems so that they become more just, sustainable, and climate-resilient.

The CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience (ClimBeR) Gender Focal Point – Mary Ng’endo Kanui from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), will participate in the symposium. Her presentation on “Building climate resilience: using a gendered intersectionality lens for increased uptake of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices,” will show how using an intersectionality lens can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the uptake of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices in agri-food systems.  The presenter will share a case study of community leaders with a mix of socio-cultural-economic indicators from two Indigenous groups – the Ogiek and Endorois people of Baringo County, located in Kenya’s Rift Valley region, who are predominantly forest dwellers and pastoralists, respectively.

Toward gender transformative change in agrifood systems faced with climate change: SESSION AGENDA

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