Leveraging Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Agriculture: A Guide for Development Organizations Based on the Sustainable Development Goals
Publisher: International Institute for Sustainable Development
Author(s): Kathleen Sexsmith
Date: 2019
Topics: Climate Change, Gender, Land, Livelihoods, Renewable Resources
Gender equality and women’s empowerment in agriculture remain pressing challenges across the Global South. Food insecurity; unequal access to land, productive resources and education; the gender division of unpaid care and domestic work; gender discrimination in access to decision making and empowerment; and insecure and precarious conditions of agricultural work for women are barriers to gender equality that undermine women’s contributions to economic, environmental and social sustainability in their communities.