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SFS-MED Webinar: Women as key players in greening Mediterranean food systems: drivers and challenges

In the framework of the #EUGreenWeek2023 and in collaboration with the event “Empowering Women Championing the Green Transition in the Mediterranean”, the SFS-MED Platform is organizing the fifth technical webinar of a series about the levers for food systems transformation.

This webinar aims at discussing the contribution of women to Mediterranean food systems and green transition. Representatives from governments, agri-food enterprises, researchers, international organizations and civil society will reflect on what needs to change to address the persisting gender gaps undermining women’s potential role and equal participation in greening food systems in the region.

If you want to hear about different ways to avoid a gender-blind green transition of Mediterranean food systems, register here!

The concept note and provisional agenda are available in English and French.

All across the Mediterranean, women contribute to food systems at multiple levels, be it as food producers, innovators, researchers, consumers, or decision-makers. As such, they can play a key role in the “green transition” of Mediterranean food systems.

However, as documented by the new comprehensive FAO report on “The status of women in agrifood systems”, significant gender gaps persist that undermine women’s potential for an equal participation to the green transition.

For example, while the market demand for “green skills” is expected to increase across the Mediterranean, many women and girls still face considerable challenges in accessing specialized male-dominated education and training (e.g. STEM or agriculture-related subjects), agricultural support and financial services, green job opportunities, and innovative and climate-smart technologies and practices. At the same time, wide gender gaps are still observed in political participation and decision-making in many countries, and more specifically in natural resource governance mechanisms, relevant policy processes and climate negotiations.

To realize a green and equal transition of the agri-food labour market, investments are needed in upskilling and reskilling women in green sectors and supporting the STEM school-to-work transition.

Gendered budgeting, sex-disaggregated data, women’s leadership in decision-making process are among the needed changes towards more inclusive and resilient Mediterranean food systems.

 

The outcome document of this webinar is published at this link and the recording is available here below:

Published on April 28, 2023
Event start date
12:00 pm
05/06/2023
Event end date
02:00 pm
05/06/2023
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