Advocacy note: Women as key actors of food resilience: a reconfiguration of gender relations in times of pandemic COVID-19 (french only)

Publication | Published at: November 30 2021

Women as key actors of food resilience: a reconfiguration of gender relations during the Covid-19 pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic and its response measures have intensified the vulnerability and inadequacies of food systems in West Africa, affecting all activities and processes of food production, distribution and consumption. To this end, rural women in Senegal and Burkina Faso have ensured the resilience of poor and vulnerable households, thus prompting recognition of this reality by men. It is therefore essential to give women decision-making power at all levels in the spheres related to the four (4) pillars of food security. It would be desirable to support and accompany the positive reconfiguration of power relations between women and men, already underway in the communities studied, in order to ensure that they have the means and abilities (social, cultural, economic, political and legal) to fully play this role. Support to peasant organizations and networks of women's organizations is essential. 

To learn more about the research project: Effects of the Covid-19 crisis on food security in Burkina Faso and Senegal: a reconfiguration of unequal gender relations

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