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Women are vital actors across Agrifood systems, Overcome Gender Inequality- FAO

May 30, 2022
Stephen KotochiebyStephen Kotochie
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Women are vital actors across Agrifood systems, Overcome Gender Inequality- FAO

Gender equality

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has disclosed that women are key actors across the agrifood systems, hence the need to overcome gender inequality to bridge the food insecurity gap.

Overcoming gender inequality can play a crucial role in freeing the world from hunger and malnutrition amid evidence that the food security gap between men and women has widened, said the FAO Director General Qu Dongyu.

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Qu Dongyu, made these assertions at the inaugural High-Level Dialogue, which was brought together by the Food Coalition and was themed The impact of global crises on food security: women as critical agents in transforming agrifood systems.

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“Women are key actors across agrifood systems and key contributors to agricultural and rural development. But if we want to build agrifood systems that benefit all people, leaving no one behind, we must overcome gender inequality.”

Qu Dongyu

Evidence shows that the underlying drivers of the increase in hunger witnessed over recent years including conflict, climate shocks, and economic downturns have hit women harder than men. The food security gender gap grew even more prominent during the year in which the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world, with the prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity 10% higher among women than men in 2020, compared to 6% in 2019.

Conflict remains the single greatest driver of hunger

The Director-General also noted that women comprise nearly half of the rural workforce in low-income countries. Yet “rural women face gender-based constraints limiting their potential ” everywhere,” Qu said.

DG with women
Participants at the meeting

“We must act now to transform our agrifood systems for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life for all, leaving no one behind. To reach this objective, we need the full participation of women in developing and implementing solutions.”

Qu Dongyu

In his opening remarks, the FAO Director-General iterated: “Conflict remains the single greatest driver of hunger in food crisis hotspot countries,” in reference to a report launched by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC).

The report showed that the number of people requiring urgent life-saving food assistance and livelihood support continues to grow at an alarming rate. Approximately 193 million people in 53 countries or territories experienced acute food insecurity at crisis or worse levels in 2021. This is an increase of nearly 40 million people compared to the numbers reported in 2020, which already represented a record high.

The High-Level Dialogue

The Food Coalition, launched officially in November 2020, was created to facilitate unified global action in response to COVID-19.  Notably, the role of the Food Coalition was also acknowledged in June 2021 by both the Matera Declaration and the G20 Rome Leaders’ Declaration. In light of the global food security crisis exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, the Food Coalition seeks to act as a worldwide voluntary alliance open to all stakeholders who wish to work and accelerate the pace of change towards the transformation of agrifood systems.

The High-Level Dialogue, organized under the Advocacy for Solutions Pillar of the Food Coalition, also sought to discuss how conflicts, particularly the war in Ukraine, lead to increasing levels of food insecurity.

The event was attended by, among others, Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams; Italian Deputy Foreign Minister, Marina Sereni; Morocco’s Minister of Solidarity, Social Inclusion and Family, Aouatif Hayar; President of Kwame Nkrumah Pan African Centre, Samia Nkrumah; and Chair of the Spanish Parliamentary Alliance for the Right to Food, Elena Diego.

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Tags: conflictFAOfood security gapgender equality

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