From gender gaps to gender-transformative climate-smart agriculture

Abstract

This review considers climate-related vulnerability and the key issues linking gender equality and social inclusion to scaling and mainstreaming climate-smart agriculture (CSA) toward achieving transformative, inclusive, and sustainable food systems, to reduce climate-related vulnerability. Recent literature continues to highlight structural barriers, biases, inequalities, and power relations impeding the contribution of CSA to reducing climate-related vulnerability. We review the role of CSA solutions toward achieving gender equality and transformation outcomes to enable food system transformation for climate change resilience. Effective food system transformation requires gender-responsive interventions, social and youth inclusion, intersectionality, and cognizance of how global social and environmental changes affect the transformation process. In the context of food system transformation, gender transformation requires scalable, enabling mechanisms.