Capacity4dev is the knowledge sharing platform created by the European Commission's Directorate General for International Partnerships (INTPA) to connect development professionals around the world so they can collaborate and share knowledge and lessons learnt about their work. The Gender topic gathers resources on Gender and women empowerment. It is not specific of food systems.
The Gender Network, with more than 2,000 members, has the goal of increasing IFAD’s impact on gender equality and strengthening women’s empowerment in poor rural areas. Members of the network include: IFAD staff, project staff at country level, external partners (such as gender experts), and other resource people from international organisations, academia and research centres, policymakers, donors and other actors.
This online community and platform aims to support the informed discussion and reflection on the current trends of training and capacity development for gender equality, the collection and dissemination of good practices and the identification of institutions, opportunities and resources for training for gender equality at the global level. It is not specific of food systems.
The ‘Community of Practice on Gender Transformative Research Methodologies (GTRM-CoP)’ is hosted under the CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform’s Methods Module. It provides an opportunity for researchers to collaborate on examining, challenging and transforming the underlying causes of gender inequalities through developing and refining gender-transformative research methodologies. Learn more, visit the CoP’s SharePoint site (CGIAR.org account holders only). It is not specific of food systems. | |
The CGIAR Gender Platform gathers training courses for researchers, students, development practitioners and others looking to boost their knowledge and skills on gender in food systems are highlighted below. It provides a selection of courses offered by highly reputable international institutions, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Bank. The GTRM toolkit recognizes that research processes can shape individual, household, and community dynamics and may unintentionally reinforce negative gender outcomes if not carefully designed. Its goal is to promote positive change through collaboration with local people and organizations. The tools support gender-transformative research by working across different levels, addressing power, agency, and institutions, encouraging researcher reflexivity, and maximizing participation and ownership by the people the research aims to benefit. |
The OECD/DAC gender equality policy marker is based on a three-point scoring system, to qualitatively track the financial flows that gender equality. This allows the OECD to identify gaps between DAC donors’ policy commitments and financial commitments. At present, 92% of total bilateral “sector-allocable” aid is screened against the gender equality marker.
The collection and use of high-quality data, disaggregated by sex, age and other forms of social and economic differentiation, and the implementation of rigorous qualitative and quantitative gender research are paramount for monitoring, evaluating and accelerating progress on gender equality in agrifood systems. Despite improvements in the past ten years, significant gaps remain in the availability, scope and granularity of data, and in the evidence on what works and under what conditions for building more inclusive agrifood systems. In particular, sex disaggregated data are still scarcely collected in nationally representative surveys available and statistics often rely on female versus male household heads. The Food systems dashboard contains provides the UNDP Gender Equality Index, and nutrition and dietary indicator for women namely underweight from NSCD-Risc, anaemia from WHO and Minimum dietary diversity for Women (MDD-W) from the Global Diet Quality Project and the Share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) collects and incorporates sex-disaggregated data in all its major statistical databases and related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) platforms. However due to the lack of sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics, it is not possible to have a full understanding of rural women’s and men’s roles, status and contributions in agriculture. The Global Nutrition Report country profiles provide sex-disaggregated on nutrition indicators and dietary practices.
The FAO provides an update on the situation of women and men in agriculture and the rural sector by country. Based on available data disaggregated by sex and age, each report describes the situation of women and men, as well as their specific roles and opportunities in agriculture and rural economies while the Food Systems Assessments identify key sustainability questions that will help define innovative policy and investments solutions in view of transforming food systems to make them more sustainable and inclusive.
The FAO, 2023. The status of women in agrifood systems provides the most complete compilation of Gender and sex-disaggregated statistics in agrifood systems. |
This list is not intended to be an exhaustive or definitive collection of websites. Rather, it is a starting point for exploration and discovery. We will continue to add new links and resources as we become aware of them, and we appreciate your suggestions and contributions to this effort. |
| Originally Published | Last Updated | 09 Aug 2024 | 10 Mar 2026 |
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