ABSTRACT

This article analyses discussions of gender equality, women’s empowerment, and women’s rights in the United Nations Committee for World Food Security (CFS). This article analyses how gender inequality has been understood and addressed by different constituencies in the reformed CFS and finds that there has been a push to challenge empowerment discourses by instead emphasizing women’s rights. These efforts to advance women’s rights in the context of food security and nutrition includes calling for attention to systemic economic, political and cultural inequalities and a repoliticization of gender inequality. This article highlights these debates about gender inequality, reflects on the broader implications for food system governance, and poses new questions for feminist scholars of international relations.

摘要

本文分析了联合国世界粮食安全委员会 (CFS) 对性别平等、妇女赋权和妇女权利的讨论。本文分析了改革后的粮安委中不同支持者如何理解和解决性别不平等问题，并发现通过强调妇女权利来挑战赋权话语已经成为一种推动力。这些在粮食安全和营养背景下促进妇女权利的努力包括呼吁关注系统性的经济、政治和文化不平等以及将性别不平等重新政治化。本文重点介绍了这些关于性别不平等的辩论，反思了对粮食系统治理的更广泛影响，并为国际关系的女权主义学者提出了新问题。