In this chapter, we build upon the gender and food systems framework developed by Njuki and colleagues (2022) to assess the associations between measures of women’s empowerment and specific food systems outcomes.

This chapter focuses on the multiple facets and meanings of water and how it is a contested resource. It also explores linkages between SDG 6 (Clean water and sanitation) and SDG 2 (Zero hunger).

Women are key stakeholders in sustainable and resilient food systems, given their roles as primary food producers and household caretakers (Visser and Wangu 2021).

Development agencies are pouring in billions of dollars to address the global food crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Research on the gender dimensions of resilience highlights differences in the ways that men and women experience disturbances, their resilience capacities, and their preferred responses.

Agrifood value chains in the world’s low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have expanded rapidly over the past decade, supplying an increasing volume and diversity of food products.

In 2022, the world faced multiple crises.

Gender inequality exists everywhere, but it is particularly stark in fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCAS).

Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment in food systems can result in greater food security and better nutrition, as well as more just, resilient and sustainable food systems for all.

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Food is the most important basic need for sustenance and survival, and the right to food is among the fundamental human rights.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major global public health problem with economic costs ranging from 1-4 percent of GDP (García-Moreno et al. 2015; Ribero and Sánchez 2005).

While Bangladesh has experienced steady advances in food production through the adoption of agricultural technologies, chronic food insecurity remains a challenge.

Over the past decade or so, there has been a renewed, and more concerted and comprehensive, interest in gender equality and women’s empowerment in the agricultural development sector.

The concept of empowerment has steadily made its way onto the international development agenda. Batliwala (2007) traces its equivalents back several hundred years and across geographies in struggles for social justice.

Rising temperatures and more extreme weather associated with climate change are expected to exacerbate existing social and gender inequalities across the globe (Adger et al. 2014 , Dankelman 2010).

The term “feminization of agriculture” is used to capture a wide range of gender dynamics and shifts in rural gender relations.

Globally, malnutrition remains unacceptably high, and its burden falls disproportionately on women and girls.