Gender Equality and Food System Resilience

Gender dynamics within food systems illustrate deep-seated structural inequalities that impede progress toward economic, social, nutritional, and environmental objectives. This presentation explores the progression from key concepts to measurement and solutions, underscoring the influence of gender across the food system and the strategies required to reshape these dynamics. A range of methodologies now exist that can be used to examine and highlight how gender dynamics in society affects food system transformation. Evidence-based solutions addressing structural inequality—such as cash transfers, community-based initiatives, and gender-sensitive financial inclusion in agriculture—are emerging in rural contexts and provide promising models of change. Transformative laws, national programs, and policy frameworks play a critical role in reinforcing and scaling such community driven efforts. Altogether, this presentation builds a conceptual, empirical, and rights-based argument for sustained investment in social transformation—through measurement, targeted solutions, and policy innovation—to advance global food system goals.