Gender & Agriculture Timeline

Further reading

Want to know more? Check out the list below for more reading materials on the topic of gender and agriculture.

For further reading: 

  1. Pyburn, Rhiannon, and Anouka Van Eerdewijk (eds). Advancing Gender Equality through Agricultural and Environmental Research: Past, Present, and Future. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (under CGIAR), 2021.
  2. FAO. The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2010-11 on “Women in Agriculture, Closing the gender gap for development”.  
  3. Doss, C., Women in agriculture: Four myths. Global Food Security (2017),
  4. IOB. Improving Food Security, 2011.
  5. NCEA. Integrating Gender Equality in Climate-Smart Development – Quick Reference Guide. Prepared for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, March 2014. This Guide includes a chapter on integrating gender in the Dutch policy cycle and a fact sheet on Gender, Food Security and Climate. 
  6. FAO, The 10 elements of Agroecology: Guiding the transition to sustainable food and agricultural systems (launched in 2018).
  7. Saying the right thing and following through: transforming gender relations in small scale agriculture. CGIAR / CCAFS, by Bruce M. Campbell, Sophia Huyer and Jayne Curnow, March 9, 2019. 
  8. What does male out-migration mean for women in rural South-Asia? SIANI (Swedish International Agriculture Network Initiative).
  9. Schenk-Sandbergen, Loes. De-feminisation of Agricultural Wage Labour in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal. Article in Economic and Political Weekly, June 23, 2018, vol LIII No 25.
  10. GRF fact sheet and memo on gender and food security (prepared for MoFA in 2017).
  11. Blue Gold Program. Feminisation of agriculture, women’s workload and sharing domestic work. Blue Gold case study.
  12. DGIS. Theory of Change Voedselzekerheid Najaar 2018 (available in Dutch).
  13. World Bank World Development Report of 2008 on Agricultural Development.
  14. Schutter, Olivier de. The agrarian transition and the feminization of agriculture. Conference paper #37. Food Sovereignity: A Critical Dialogue. International Conference Yale University. September 14-15, 2013. Published in the Journal of Peasant Studies, July 2013.
  15. Jaim, W.M.H and Mahabub Hossain. Women’s Participation in Agriculture in Bangladesh 1988-2008: Changes and Determinants. Paper presented at the 7th Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASEA) International Conference Hanoi, Vietnam, October 12, 2011.
  16. OECD DAC Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET). Definition and minimum recommended criteria for the DAC gender equality policy marker. December 2016.
  17. IOB. Food for Thought. Review of Dutch food security policy 2012-2016. 2017. 
  18. SUN Movement Lead Group. Scaling up gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment to fight malnutrition – A call to action. In collaboration with Global Affairs Canada, Nutrition International, and Save the Children. Not dated. 
  19. World Vision Canada. A Gender-Transformative Framework for Nutrition – Advancing Nutrition and Gender Equality Together. With a coalition of Canadian agencies. 2020. 
  20. NWGN – The Netherlands Working Group on international Nutrition. Increasing Awareness and Knowledge about Nutrition: A Practitioner Guide for SDGP and other PPP projects. With support of the Netherlands’ Enterprise Agency. August 2021.