Skip to main content
Knowledge4Policy
Knowledge for policy
Supporting policy with scientific evidence

We mobilise people and resources to create, curate, make sense of and use knowledge to inform policymaking across Europe.

  • Publication | 2026
Enhancing food safety and women's empowerment through gender-responsive agrifood policies in Uganda
Global Food and Nutrition Security

The study provides a policy governance diagnostic, examining the extent to which Uganda’s agrifood policies integrate gender and food safety considerations in their processes. 

Highlights from the publications are:

  • The study employs the Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) analysis framework. 
  • Reviewed policies make broad gender equality commitments but reveal a significant ‘action gap’, lacking targeted actions, budgets, and accountability.
  • Agrifood policy landscape presents few opportunities for citizen and women input and feedback into the policy process. 
  • Most agrifood policies incorporate measures to ensure food safety but lack gender-responsive measures.
  • There is a need to institutionalize inclusive policy formulation processes that deliberately engage women and marginalized groups to ensure their voices shape policy decisions.