This paper examines the potential and limitations of SDG 5 (Gender Equality) in helping to achieve household food security. The potential lies in the attention it pays to women’s access to land and natural resources, which can significantly enhance women’s ability to produce and procure food. Its limitations lie in a lack of attention to the production constraints that women farmers face; its failure to recognise forests and fisheries as key sources of food; and its lack of clarity on which natural resources women need access to and why. Moreover, other goals which bear on food security as important providers of nutrition, such as SDG 15 as it relates to forests and SDG 14 as it relates to fish resources, make no mention of gender equality, nor does SDG 13 (Climate action) recognise the vulnerabilities of women farmers. A bold interpretation of SDG 5 and establishing synergies with other SDGs could provide ways forward. This includes not only SDGs which recognise the importance of gender equality, such as SDGs 1, 2, and 13 on poverty, hunger, and climate change respectively, but also SDGs 14 and 15 whose silence on gender could prove detrimental not just to attaining food security, but also to furthering their stated objectives of resource conservation.

本文探讨了可持续发展目标5（性别平等）在帮助实现家庭粮食安全方面的潜力和局限性。潜力在于它对妇女获得土地和自然资源的重视，这可以大大提高妇女的生产和采购能力。其局限性在于缺乏对女农民面临的生产限制的关注；未能承认森林和渔业为主要食物来源；以及对于妇女需要获得哪些自然资源以及为什么原因缺乏明确的认识。此外，与粮食安全有关的重要目标是重要的营养提供者，例如与森林有关的可持续发展目标15和与鱼类资源有关的可持续发展目标14，没有提及性别平等，可持续发展目标13（气候行动）也没有认识到女农民的脆弱性。对可持续发展目标5的大胆解释以及与其他可持续发展目标的协同增效可以提供前进的道路。这不仅包括认识到性别平等重要性的可持续发展目标，例如分别关于贫困，饥饿和气候变化的可持续发展目标1、2和13，而且还包括可持续发展目标14和15，它们对性别的沉默可能证明不仅对获取食物有害。安全，也有助于进一步实现其既定的资源节约目标。