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Gender, nutrition and the human right to adequate food: toward an inclusive framework
A NGO-academia collaborative research and advocacy project
Dr. Stefanie Lemke
Gender and Nutrition Training: How to integrate gender and nutrition-sensitive approaches into IFAD’s operations
21 November 2016, Rome, Italy
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Workshop “Articulating rights-based methods in teaching and research”, 2009, University of Hohenheim How we began….
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Funded byHeinrich Böll FoundationEco-Fair Trade Dialogue
Fiat Panis, MisereorGender and Nutrition Research Center (UHOH)
Asking a question together….
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2016https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415714457
Articulating an answer together…
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Anne C. Bellows Syracuse University Flavio L.S. Valente FIAN International Stefanie Lemke Coventry University Ana María Suárez Franco FIAN International Anna Jenderedjian University of Hohenheim R. Denisse Córdova Montes FIAN International Lida Lhotska IBFAN-GIFA María Daniela Núñez Burbano de Lara University of Hohenheim Roseane do Socorro Gonçalves Viana University of Hohenheim Veronika Scherbaum University of Hohenheim
GNRtAF Project Partners
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Project Results:
1. Evolving nature of the human rights system and development of the Right to adequate food
2. Two structural disconnects The right to adequate food (ICESCR), and women‘s rights (CEDAW) -
separate legal obligations, institutional organization, research agendas
Non-integrated foci on
Agriculture/food production vs. nutrition/public health
Neglect of consumption and cultural aspects of nutrition
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Violence (direct/aggressive to structural) under-examined and often invisible* barrier to women’s right to adequate food (* See also FAO 2011, Schäfer 2012, World Bank/FAO/IFAD 2009)
Prevents participation of women as autonomous members of efforts to address hunger and food insecurity
Participation can increase or initiate violence against women (partner, family, employer, community, society…)
Photo: South Africa, Eisermann
European Right to Food Summer School (2012)
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Address malnutrition a) across life cycles as life-long human rights deprivation – not only as function of nutrition or in pregnancy and infancy; b) as inter-generational causality of hunger, poverty, growth failure.
Support local and sustainable interventions: breastfeeding, appropriate complementary feeding, reproductive rights & health
Avoid nutrition interventions that: a) have built-in conflicts of interests, b) prioritize short-term, medicalized and non-sustainable solutions, c) threaten women’s and communities’ right to dignity and self-determination.
Project Results: 4. Intertwined subjectivities of maternal-child health and nutrition
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Emphasize more localized and sustainable food and nutrition systems with agro-ecological approaches, supporting smaller-scaled farmers
Democratize food governance at diverse scales
Support local knowledge (cf.: IAASTD; FAO Right to Food Guidelines; food sovereignty movement)
Mainstream gender in all above, recognizing barriers women face (triple burden); empowerment strategies instrumentalise women
Integrate men, address masculinities, transformative gender approach
Project Results: 5. Sustainable food systems, gender & participation
Ivory Coast, own image
Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft und Agroscope, Switzerland
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Rights-based approach most potent tool to promote a more precise diagnosis of the root causes of inequities
Integrate gender & women‘s rights, nutrition and food sovereignty into Right to Food
Participatory, social movement-led reconceptualization to avoid artificial fragmentation of conceptual, legal and institutional frameworks and associated ineffective policies against hunger and malnutrition
Strengthen rights holders to hold states accountable
Project Results: 6. Expanded conceptual framework for the right to adequate food and nutrition
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Policy in Focus, The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (2016)
Heinrich Boell Foundation (2016)
Violence against Women (2015)
Sage Encyclopedia of Food Issues (2015)
International Journal of Human Rights (2014)
Right to Food and Nutrition WATCH (2011, 2012, 2013)
Ernährungsumschau (2011, 2012a, 2012b) [Nutrition overview]
Agriculture and Human Values (2012)
Politische Ökologie (2012) [political ecology]
J. of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development (2012)
Right to Food Journal (2012)
Project results were widely published:
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Advocacy in collaboration with civil society and others partners
Representation, Committee on Status of Women, NYC (2014) Contributions to reports of Spec Rapporteur on the RtF, O. de
Schutter: Nutrition (2012), Gender (2013) Contribution to 1st draft Global Strategic Framework for Food
Security and Nutrition, CFS secretariat, 2012 World Nutr Conf, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2012 Contribution to Committee on the Rights of the Child's GC on
Child Rights and Business Sector (CRC), 2012 HRC/Working Group Discrim. ag Women, Geneva, 2011 CEDAW, Geneva, 2011 Nat Conf F&N Security, Salvador, Brazil, 2011 Contributions Policies against Hunger (2010, 2011) See also www.fian.org, holistic approach
CEDAW, Geneva 2011
Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur Right to Food 2008-14
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Way forward?
Knowledge Production/Research:
Cross-sectoral: production and application (e.g. advocacy)
Apply RtAFN framework, mixed methods, related frameworks
Curriculum Development: maximize integration with CSOs/social movements & public sector –we are still learning!
Right to Food impact often limited, despite legal obligations
Promote rights-based vs. needs-based approach
Crucial role of CSOs and human rights institutions: raising awareness, public pressure on governments
IFAD’s position on women’s rights vs. empowerment?
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Thank you for your attention!Contact:
[email protected]@[email protected]
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience: www.coventry.ac.uk/cawr