Webinar: Gender Equality in Agriculture: Leveraging Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Women's Empowerment

Apr 17, 2019 | International Institute For Sustainable Development
Online
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Gender equality in agriculture remains a challenge. Unequal power structures in rural households mean women often have difficulty accessing food for themselves, even though they are usually the ones responsible for preparing food for their families. This problem persists and has created significant challenges for women’s nutrition, food security and health in developing countries.

Women have also historically faced challenges having the same access to productive agricultural resources as men. Unequal property rights and poor working conditions have also been major challenges for women working in this sector.

During the April 17 webinar, experts Kathleen Sexsmith, author of the report and Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology at Pennsylvania State University, and Cristina Larrea, Sustainability Standards Workstream Lead at IISD, will highlight some of these concerns and explore how leveraging voluntary sustainability standards can support gender equality and women’s empowerment in agriculture. 

For more information and to register, please visit https://iisd.org/event/webinar-gender-equality-agriculture-leveraging-voluntary-sustainability-standards-womens. 

Where: Online

When: 17 April 2019 

Organizers: International Institute For Sustainable Development