Leveraging Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Agriculture: A Guide for Development Organizations Based on the Sustainable Development Goals
Our report, available in English and French, explains how voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) can be used as a tool to meet the SDGs and targets related to gender equality and women’s empowerment in agriculture.
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Table 4
The table below summarizes the findings on the ways VSSs can promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in agriculture through activities and interventions with producers. The findings presented in the table and throughout the document are colour-coded to indicate where standards can be leveraged to make a positive contribution (green), where the promotion of gender equality can take place depending on certain conditions (yellow) and where development organizations should proceed with caution due to the risk of standards exacerbating gender inequalities if not undertaken with sensitivity to local gender dynamics (red).