Duncan, Jessica and Claeys, Priscilla (2020) Gender, covid-19 and food systems: Impacts, community responses and feminist policy demands. Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSM), Rome.
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Gender inequality and discrimination is shaping, and will continue to shape, the COVID-19 pandemic in tangible and significant ways. The collective spirit and emotional intensity generated during this time of crisis can be, and has been, mobilized, and their impacts are likely to be greater now. Efforts dedicated to providing mutual aid, monitoring policy makers, defending women and workers’ rights, creating strike funds to extend health benefits to those who lost their jobs, strengthening popular education, organizing food distributions, offer a perspective of the crisis ‘from below’ and provide us with concrete examples of rebuilding social fabrics based on concrete solidarity. Feminist and food sovereignty movements have been, and continue to be, central to these efforts. Given this context, this report summarizes research around the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on women in and across the constituencies and regions of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSM) for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS). Based on the research, the report summarizes acts of mutual aid and solidarity, as well as negative impacts experienced by women around the world. Principles to guide policies and programmes are identified and concrete policy demands are articulated in four areas: 1) economic activities, markets and access to resources; 2) care work, public health and gender-based violence; 3) participation, representation and digital equity; 4) government responses and social protection.
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Keywords: | Gender, Covid, Policy, Equality, Discrimination, Labour Rights, Food Sovereignty, Employment, Health, Violence, Equity, Social Security |
| Subjects: | Disasters and Climate Change Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture |
| Depositing User: | Jeeva ICSF Rajan |
| Date Deposited: | 16 May 2022 06:07 |
| Last Modified: | 30 May 2022 07:08 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/13592 |
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