Sustainable Food Systems Symposium 2024

Session

Gender and Empowerment

18 Sept 2024, 10:30

1.501.1 (Paulinerkirche)

150. Smallholder Farming Commercialization and Food Security in Malawi: Do Land Rights and Intrahousehold Bargaining Power Matter?

David Zingwe (University of Malawi)

18/09/2024, 10:30

Oral

In Malawi, traditional/customary land rights are engendered where the patrilineal or matrilineal land holding regimes are upheld. In this paper, we investigate the interplay between engendered land rights regimes and intrahousehold bargaining power in dictating the direction of agricultural commercialization, and food security in Malawi. We, firstly, examine the effect of engendered land...

122. Gender gaps in autonomy over intra-household resources in Peruvian cocoa farming households

Simone Santalucia

18/09/2024, 10:50

Oral

Keywords: women’s autonomy, intra-household resource allocation, economic experiment, cocoa, Peru

Women’s autonomy over intra-household resources has been shown to be a lever to achieve better food security and nutrition (Njuki et al. 2022). However, women in patriarchal and patrilineal societies are often less autonomous in decision-making around household resources. A large body of the...

177. Gender Aspects and Sustainable Land Management Practices: A Path Modelling Analysis for Germany

Marlene Kionka

18/09/2024, 11:10

Oral

Humanity faces the challenge to produce sufficient food, fuel and fibre at contested natural resources for a growing world population. Intensive farming, driven by economic pressures, leads to adverse environmental effects. Transitioning to sustainable farming is crucial, however, success of policies like the EU's Common Agricultural Policy in promoting sustainable practices is limited. Recent...

99. Agency & behavior change in agri-food systems transformation – a review of agroecology initiatives

Rachel Voss (WorldFish)

18/09/2024, 11:30

Oral

Introduction
Systems-level transformation is increasingly recognized as necessary to improve the sustainability, equity, and resilience of agri-food systems. The CGIAR initiative on Agroecology utilizes a system transformation approach in alignment with (Gliessman, 2021) and the 13 principles of agroecology outlined by Nicolétis et al. (2019). This approach requires new understandings of...