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Women's Roles in the West African Food System: Implications and Prospects for Food Security and Resilience

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  • Donatella Gnisci

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This paper examines how women’s empowerment is essential for food and nutrition security and resilience in West Africa and suggests policy “pointers” arising from the West African experience that can help inform policies and strategies, particularly in view of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. West African women play a significant role at each stage in the food system, from production to distribution to nutrition, and they contribute to building resilience and adaptability to uncertainty and shocks including the effects of climate change. While it is clear that women significantly contribute to the eradication of hunger and malnutrition, it is also evident that there is a need for greater political representation and participation in policy dialogues. Cette note montre en quoi l’autonomisation des femmes est essentielle à la sécurité et à la résilience alimentaire et nutritionnelle en Afrique de l’Ouest. Elle suggère des arguments éclairés tirés de l’expérience ouest-africaine pour nourrir les politiques et stratégies en vue de l’agenda international pour le développement durable à l’horizon 2030. Les femmes ouest-africaines jouent un rôle important à chaque étape du système alimentaire, de la production à la nutrition en passant par la distribution. Elles contribuent à renforcer la résilience et la capacité d’adaptation aux incertitudes et aux chocs tels que les effets du changement climatique. Alors qu’il est clair que les femmes aident de manière significative à l’élimination de la faim et de la malnutrition, il est également évident qu’elles doivent être mieux représentées politiquement et participer davantage au dialogue sur les politiques.

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  • Donatella Gnisci, 2016. "Women's Roles in the West African Food System: Implications and Prospects for Food Security and Resilience," West African Papers 3, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:swacaa:3-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5jlpl4mh1hxn-en
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    1. Turner, Matthew D. & Teague, Molly & Ayantunde, Augustine, 2021. "Eating groups within households: Differentiation in food consumption by age, gender, and genealogical position in rural Burkina Faso," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).
    2. Walther, Olivier J. & Tenikue, Michel & Trémolières, Marie, 2019. "Economic performance, gender and social networks in West African food systems," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 124(C), pages 1-1.
    3. Heather VanVolkenburg & Isabelle Vandeplas & Katim Touré & Safiétou Sanfo & Fatoumata Lamarana Baldé & Liette Vasseur, 2022. "Do COVID-19 and Food Insecurity Influence Existing Inequalities between Women and Men in Africa?," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(4), pages 1-10, February.
    4. Gannon, Kate & Castellano, Elena & Eskander, Shaikh & Agol, Dorice & Diop, Mamadou & Conway, Declan & Sprout, Liz, 2022. "The triple differential vulnerability of female entrepreneurs to climate risk in sub-Saharan Africa: gendered barriers and enablers to private sector adaptation," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 115222, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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    food systems; gender; West Africa; Women;
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