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  • Publication | 2023

The status of women in agrifood systems

Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights:

The report showcases the following policy highlights, based on the numerical highlights presented in the box below:

  • Increasing women’s empowerment is essential for women’s well-being and has a positive impact on agricultural production, food security, diets and child nutrition.
  • Gender-transformative approaches to change restrictive social norms are cost-effective and have high returns, but more work is needed on developing pathways to implement gender-transformative approaches at scale.
  • Enhancing women’s rights to own or have secure tenure over agricultural land has positive impacts on empowerment, investment, natural-resource management, access to services and institutions, resilience and food security, reducing gender-based violence and increasing women’s bargaining power.
  • Access to formal child care has a large positive effect on mothers’ employment in and returns to agrifood-system activities.
  • Improving women’s access to agricultural extension is important to maximize food security and nutritional outcomes and to facilitate women’s participation across agrifood systems.
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