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Women may not share the same wealth as men - what does that mean for #Food2025?
This week, we found a great research paper from Cheryl Doss, a Yale economist and #Food2025 panelist, exploring gender and economics in developing countries. The paper finds a significant gap in wealth between men and women in developing countries.
The paper also examines land ownership among men and women: "The lack of women’s land ownership feeds into the system whereby women are not seen as real farmers. This, in turn, limits their access to credit, extension services, and access to other inputs. This can be an endless cycle whereby women are not given land because they are seen as less productive and they are less productive because they have less access to land and other inputs."
Last week's video stated that food insecurity was a women's issue, as women are responsible for feeding their families in many developing countries. Women grow the food, tend the animals, and cook and prepare meals.
So what happens to this system when women are not permitted to own land?
Read the rest of the paper, Gender and the Distribution of Wealth in Developing Countries, by clicking on the attached file name below.
Food security should be a people's issue, not a women's issue
How does this play into food security? According to research done by the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice (MRFCJ), food security is a women's issue. In Uganda, men make the money, but women feed the family. It's women who are out plowing the fields, cooking meals for their families, adapting practices to deal with climate change, caring for livestock, and the list goes on.
Watch this video on the MRFJC's work in Uganda.
But food security shouldn't be a women's issue. It should be a people's issue. So how do we include men in the global conversation? Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and keynote speaker at our Global Food Systems Forum, discusses this important issue in her video below.
