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Empowering landless women through collectives in the agrifood systems: A review

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Title Empowering landless women through collectives in the agrifood systems: A review
 
Creator Mohammed, Kamaldeen
 
Contributor Najjar, Dina
 
Subject collectives
agri-food
 
Description Collectives are viewed as agents for women's economic empowerment in the Agrifood System through
collective action. Globally, women constitute about 36% of employed people in AFS and almost half of
the workforce in the food processing and services sector. As such, empowering women in the agrifood
systems is a vital prerequisite for fostering a fair and peaceful world as well as enhancing women’s
income and wellbeing. This review explores how collectives can empower vulnerable and often landless
women in the agri-food sector. The review highlights the types of collectives, the level of formality and
how that affects women’s participation in collectives. Broadly, the role of collectives in women
empowerment can be described as being economical, social or political empowerment. However, for a
full and effective empowerment of women, there must be an enabling ecosystem of formal laws, rules
and regulations and informal social norms, religious beliefs and customs favouring collectivization. There
also need to be favourable socio-economic and cultural factors that allow for women's ability and
willingness to collectivize. Women collectives can potentially improve women’s income-earning
opportunities, access to financial resources, and other social outcomes. However, collectives still face
challenges such as inadequate access to productive resources, insufficient participation of women in
decision-making, structural and cultural gender constraints, and the overburden of collectives with
women empowerment.
 
Date 2023-12-10T17:37:59Z
2023-12-10T17:37:59Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/1232562887cd08f8217842c133737f2d
Kamaldeen Mohammed, Dina Najjar. (1/11/2023). Empowering landless women through collectives in the agrifood systems: A review. Beirut, Lebanon: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/68885
Open access
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)