CGIAR Series of Evidence Explainers

Global Food and Nutrition Security

The CGIAR Evidence explainers are short, accessible summaries of notable gender research. Each explainer presents recommendations, implications and conclusions of use to development practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and others working with gender in food systems.

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Geographic coverage	Global
Available from	20 Mar 2025
Related organisation(s)	CGIAR - Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers
Knowledge service \| Metadata	Global Food and Nutrition Security \| Sustainable Food Systems Gender Equality and Food systems \| Gender-based violence Womens' empowerment Sex disaggregated data Smallholder agriculture
Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET)	gender equality

Delivering on gender equality: the missing piece in climate and food systems policy

This brief examines the structural failures in climate and food systems policy and finance that leave women in climate-vulnerable agrifood contexts, from smallholder farmers to informal market vendors and post-harvest...

ONLINE RESOURCE | 19 Jun 2026

FAOSTAT Suite of Gender Indicators

The Suite of Gender Indicators presents a set of indicators relevant to agrifood systemswith the aim of highlighting gender differences across agrifood systems. It was launched in 2026...

PUBLICATION | 19 Jun 2026

Gender indicators 2000–2024 June 2026 update

This Brief, produced on the occasion of the launch of the FAOSTAT Suite of Gender Indicators domain in June 2026, presents updated sex-disaggregated data across agrifood systems, organised around...

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CGIAR Series of Evidence Explainers

Delivering on gender equality: the missing piece in climate and food systems policy

FAOSTAT Suite of Gender Indicators

Gender indicators 2000–2024 June 2026 update