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Assessing Structural Changes in Women's Employment within Agrifood Systems

SSRN, ISSN: 1556-5068
2024
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Article Description

Women are increasingly assuming crucial roles in agrifood systems, shifting from agriculture to off-farm activities. However, assessing whether this structural transformation is occurring equally for men and women is challenging due to the scarcity of sex-disaggregated data on agrifood systems and in the off-farm sector globally. The paper aims to bridge this gap by compiling a comprehensive dataset covering 182 countries and analysing gender patterns of employment in agrifood systems from 2000 to 2021. The study finds that agrifood systems is a critical source of livelihood for about 735 million men and 455 million women globally, and as economies grow, both men and women move out of self-employment in agriculture towards wage employment in the off-farm sector, but this trend is not equal for men and women.

Bibliographic Details

Valentina Costa; Natalia Piedrahita; Vanya Slavchevska; Yonca Gurbuzer; Erdgin Mane; Benjamin Davis

Elsevier BV

Multidisciplinary; women's employment; agrifood systems; structural transformation; Covid-19 pandemic

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