CIRDAP Official Channel 49d ago

This significant webinar titled ‘Food and Agriculture: From a Gender Lens’ held on Thursday, May 7, 2026, at 11 am Bangladesh Time (10:45 am in Nepal). CIRDAP esteemed expert Dr. Yamuna Ghale from Nepal embraced as the speaker in the webinar Right to Food is Right to Life. Each citizen has the right to enjoy food of their need as per their age, health condition and culture. Rights to food in fact is very much interlinked with agriculture system. In this process, community, private sector and other social institutions as well as international agencies have the role to enable every State to fulfil their duties towards their citizens. Dr. Yamuna Ghale focused on the changing context of globalization, as agriculture and food are also being commodified as a function of trade. Increasing threat of climate change has brought more challenges than that of opportunities for the smallholders as well as women led farming systems specially to the developing countries. In addition, increasing trend of male-youth out-migration has further feminized the agriculture and food chain related tasks. On the contrary, women in specific are challenged by limited access to production resources, technological innovations, mobility, including the additional roles to take up in all productive, reproductive, community and political roles. In certain communities, socio-cultural dimensions are even more critical to make girls and women more vulnerable to nutrition and food security. #CIRDAP #Genderlens #womenfarmer #farmer #sustainabledevelopment #sustainability #agriculture #sociocultural #womenempowerment #women #farming #righttofood #righttoequality #righttolife #challenge #ruraldevelopment