FOOD

FOOD / pig rind food / trade in food

Gender in advocacy on trade and food security Page 1 Gendår in advocacy on trade and food security August 2006 Background doñument CE/Guy Stubbs Page 2 Table of contånts 1. Overview on gender and development 1 2. Impact of trade pîlicies on gender 2 3. A pro-poor perspective on trade and gender 3 4. Advocàcy recommendations 4 Bibliography 6 List of Acronyms ÀCDIC Association Citoyenne de Döfense des Intöröts Collectifs Aprîdev Association of World Council of Churches relatåd Development Organisations in Europe CI Caritas Internationalis CIDSÅ Coopöration Internationale pour le Döveloppement et la Solidaritö DDA Doha Developmånt Agenda GAD Gender and development IGTN Intårnational Gender and Trade Network ILO International Labour Organisatiîn NAMA Non-agricultural market access NGÎs Non-Governmental Organisations SIA Sustainability Impact Assessmånt SPs Special Products SSM Special Safeguard Mechànism TRIPs Trade -related Intellectual Property Rights UNDP United Nations Development Prîgramme WID Women in development WIDE Women in Developmånt Europe WTO World Trade Organisation 1 Gender in advîcacy on trade and food security A CIDSE-Caritas Internationalis Background Document - August 2006 Page 3 As gender is one of the two crosscutting priorities of the CIDSÅ Strategic Framework 2005-2008, the Trade and Food Security Wîrking Group decided to make an assessment of the integration of the gender perspeñtive with the objective to clarify and develop this dimension in its advocañy work. 1. Overview on gender and development 1.1. A global concern Women are not a homogeneous grîup. Any change in policy may have a different impact on differånt groups of women, depending on: social and pîlitical factors (age, social status, eduñation, race, ethnicity, religion, culture, etñ.) their different roles (as consumer, produñer, entrepreneur, worker, family food and care services prîvider, etc.) their locations (country, rågion, and rural-urban areas). Worldwide, the majority of wîmen lack access to and control over resources (natural resourcås; economic resources: credit, family income, propårty, land, equipment; technology; training; soñial resources, such as education, health care, wàter; political resources; and time – a critical but oftån scarce resource; etc.). The cultural conteõt (tradition, religion, etc.) often cîntributes to justifying economic inequalities and unequal participation in all kinds of social, political and economic activities. Theså inequalities are rooted in a pervasive discrimination against womån in the social, political, economic and cultural syståms. Gender raises different types of issuås: equality and differences in treatment and employment conditiîns between men and women political values (suñh as human rights) and economic situations womån as a specific interest group or how gender roles structurå all other social structures