Discursive translations of gender mainstreaming norms: The case of agricultural and climate change policies in Uganda

Acosta, Mariola; Bommel, Séverine van; Wessel, Margit van; Ampaire, Edidah L.; Jassogne, Laurence; Feindt, Peter H.

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2019.02.010

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“…A 2019 study analyzing policy documents in Uganda found that the rhetoric of “gender mainstreaming” was well integrated, but that this was insufficient to advance gender equality, given the lack of concrete implementation efforts. The study also found that the documents used mainstreaming in a way that tended to depoliticize gender ( Acosta et al, 2019 ).…”

Section: Addressing Women's Food Insecurity In a (More) Unstable And mentioning

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Gender inequality and food insecurity: A dozen years after the food price crisis, rural women still bear the brunt of poverty and hunger

Botreau¹,

Cohen

2020

Advances in Food Security and Sustainability

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The global food price crisis of 2007–08 had devastating impacts for the world's poorest people, especially for smallholder farmers and in particular for women, who face discrimination and a heavy burden of household responsibility. The international policy response to the crisis saw the launch of numerous new initiatives and instruments, but funding has been insufficient and policies have failed to address the structural deficiencies in the global food system. A dozen years on, in light of climate change and increased conflict, new policies are needed to reorient the food system so that it prioritizes smallholder communities, with a renewed focus on the needs and aspirations of women.

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Section: Addressing Women's Food Insecurity In a (More) Unstable And mentioning

confidence: 90%

Gender inequality and food insecurity: A dozen years after the food price crisis, rural women still bear the brunt of poverty and hunger

Botreau¹,

Cohen

2020

Advances in Food Security and Sustainability

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“…Government initiatives in mainstreaming gender policies are less effective in agriculture ( Acosta et al, 2019 ). Women continue to experience information asymmetry in advisory services provided ( Kristjanson et al, 2017 ; Kansiime et al, 2019 ) even though they require it in a higher extent ( Hellin and Fisher, 2018 ).…”

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Are women neglected in the EU agriculture? Evidence from Lithuanian young farmers

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“…Instead, it is tagged on or mentioned in separate documents and debates, in what Acosta et al . (2019, p. 15) refer to as a ‘stale reproduction of set pieces of text [pointing to] significant levels of inertia in thinking and practice around gender mainstreaming issues’.…”

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Mainstreaming Gender and Climate Change to Achieve a Just Transition to a Climate‐Neutral Europe

Allwood

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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In November 2019 the European Parliament (2019/2930(RSP)) declared a climate and environmental emergency, calling for urgent and concrete action. The year 2019 was Europe's hottest year on record (Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2019), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2018, p. v) reported that 'emissions of greenhouse gases due to human activities, the root cause of global warming, continue to increase, year after year'. Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg inspired and led a worldwide school strike movement, and mass protests dominated by young women took place around the world (Wahlström et al., 2019). The European Parliament resolution of 14 March 2019 (2019/2582(RSP)) 'welcomes the fact that people across Europe, in particular younger generations, are becoming increasingly active in demonstrating for climate justice'. At the institutional level 2019 was a year of renewal, with the European Parliament elections in May, the adoption of a new Council strategy in June and the appointment of a new Commission in December. Climate change was a priority for all these institutional actors. The Council strategy 2019-24, for example, insists on the urgent need to build a 'climate-neutral, green, fair and social Europe'. The new President of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced her intention to see Europe become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Climate change arrived on the EU agenda in the 1980s, emerging out of environmental policy, which was already established as an area that required transnational action. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s the climate ambition of the EU exceeded its ability to agree on, and implement, effective actions (Dupont and Oberthür, 2015). When the USA withdrew from the Kyoto protocol in 2001 the EU took on a global leadership role and has continued to construct an identity as a global actor around the issue of climate change (Jordan et al., 2010). This had economic motivations (to avoid being undercut by exporters with lower environmental standards) but was also part of the post-Maastricht efforts to increase the EU's global actorness. The past decade has seen climate change gain prominence and take centre stage. In 2009 the landmark climate and energy framework (COM(2014)15 final) introduced targets for greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency and renewable energy. Within the European Commission climate action gained its own Directorate General, DG CLIMA. This was an important part of the process of institutionalizing climate change. The issue of climate change continued to rise up the EU and the global agenda, and there was a strong dynamic between the two. The Lisbon Treaty (2007) gave the EU competence to conclude international environmental agreements. The EU, along with its member states, is a party to the United Nations

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Discursive translations of gender mainstreaming norms: The case of agricultural and climate change policies in Uganda

Cited by 49 publications

References 30 publications

Gender inequality and food insecurity: A dozen years after the food price crisis, rural women still bear the brunt of poverty and hunger

Gender inequality and food insecurity: A dozen years after the food price crisis, rural women still bear the brunt of poverty and hunger

Are women neglected in the EU agriculture? Evidence from Lithuanian young farmers

Mainstreaming Gender and Climate Change to Achieve a Just Transition to a Climate‐Neutral Europe

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