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Policy briefPolicy briefWomen’s financial inclusion: Alternative collateral approaches for closing the credit gap for women in agrifood systems 2024
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No results found.Men and women engaged in agrifood systems face greater challenges in accessing financial services and securing adequate finance. Ensuring financing for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is difficult in agriculture because of external risks, including climate change, price volatility, changes in market demand, government regulations, and business-related constraints. The latter include inadequate management capacity, incomplete financial records, lack of traditional types of collateral, and extra expenses for reaching rural clients.Women involved in rural agrifood systems face even greater challenges than men in accessing financial services, due to additional social, economic, and legal constraints related to their gender. A main underlying cause of gender inequalities is related to women’s lack of the traditional collateral required to access credit, particularly as they are less likely than men to own land. The absence of property titles makes women less attractive clients for formal financial institutions and often limits their access to financing.The policy note "Women’s financial inclusion: Alternative collateral approaches for closing the credit gap for women in agrifood systems" presents examples of promising solutions to overcome the lack of collateral and facilitate women’s access to financial resources for agriculture and food system transformation. It also provides policymakers with recommendations on how to increase women’s access to financial services for building inclusive, efficient, resilient, and sustainable agrifood systems. -
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DocumentProgrammingScoping paper on complementary social protection and economic inclusion programming for rural women’s economic empowerment 2025
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Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023
Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets across the rural–urban continuum
2023This report provides an update on global progress towards the targets of ending hunger (SDG Target 2.1) and all forms of malnutrition (SDG Target 2.2) and estimates on the number of people who are unable to afford a healthy diet. Since its 2017 edition, this report has repeatedly highlighted that the intensification and interaction of conflict, climate extremes and economic slowdowns and downturns, combined with highly unaffordable nutritious foods and growing inequality, are pushing us off track to meet the SDG 2 targets. However, other important megatrends must also be factored into the analysis to fully understand the challenges and opportunities for meeting the SDG 2 targets. One such megatrend, and the focus of this year’s report, is urbanization. New evidence shows that food purchases in some countries are no longer high only among urban households but also among rural households. Consumption of highly processed foods is also increasing in peri-urban and rural areas of some countries. These changes are affecting people’s food security and nutrition in ways that differ depending on where they live across the rural–urban continuum. This timely and relevant theme is aligned with the United Nations General Assembly-endorsed New Urban Agenda, and the report provides recommendations on the policies, investments and actions needed to address the challenges of agrifood systems transformation under urbanization and to enable opportunities for ensuring access to affordable healthy diets for everyone. -
DocumentOther documentReducing inequalities for food security and nutrition
A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
2023The report “Reducing inequalities for food security and nutrition” has been developed by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) following the request by the United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS) as included in its Programme of Work (MYPoW 2020-2023). In particular, the CFS requested the HLPE-FSN to develop a report to: (i) analyse evidence relating to how inequalities in access to assets (particularly land, other natural resources and finance) and in incomes within food systems impede opportunities for many actors to overcome food insecurity and malnutrition; (ii) analyse the drivers of inequalities and provide recommendations on entry points to address these; and (iii) identify areas requiring further research and data collection. This report will inform the ensuing CFS thematic workstream on inequalities, aiming at addressing the root causes of food insecurity with a focus on those “most affected by hunger and malnutrition”. -
Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022
Repurposing food and agricultural policies to make healthy diets more affordable
2022This year’s report should dispel any lingering doubts that the world is moving backwards in its efforts to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms. We are now only eight years away from 2030, but the distance to reach many of the SDG 2 targets is growing wider each year. There are indeed efforts to make progress towards SDG 2, yet they are proving insufficient in the face of a more challenging and uncertain context. The intensification of the major drivers behind recent food insecurity and malnutrition trends (i.e. conflict, climate extremes and economic shocks) combined with the high cost of nutritious foods and growing inequalities will continue to challenge food security and nutrition. This will be the case until agrifood systems are transformed, become more resilient and are delivering lower cost nutritious foods and affordable healthy diets for all, sustainably and inclusively.