An evidence synthesis of gender norms in agrifood systems: Pathways towards improved women’s economic resilience to climate change

This evidence synthesis aims to develop a systemic understanding of how women manage their livelihoods and organize food for household consumption when the agrifood systems within which they live are being affected, sometimes devastatingly, by climate change. 

The primary focus of the evidence synthesis is on how gender norms facilitate, or hamper, women’s abilities to put food on the table and to achieve economic resilience in the face of climate change challenges across agrifood systems in low- and middle-income countries. The conceptual framing examines the workings of gender norms and how they are contested through selected variables — women’s power and agency, intersectionality, and women’s location in their life course — to arrive at a picture of how women are negotiating climate change in their everyday lives.