Practical Guide for the Incorporation of the Intersectionality Approach in Sustainable Rural Development Programmes and Projects

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

In Latin America and the Caribbean, access to food and nutritional security, the poverty situation, and the capacity to respond to climate change are strongly related to gender, ethnic-racial origin, age group, and territory differences. A situation that demands observing the intertwined nature of these inequalities and proposing new ways to achieve sustainable development, leaving no one behind.

This challenge prompted the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to develop a guide that facilitates the development of programmes and projects with an intersectional approach. The objective of the tool is to give rise to innovative and sensitive work methodologies that allow the identification of inequalities and the development of socio-territorially relevant and systemic solutions, aimed to eliminate the knots of inequality. Contributing in this way to the effective implementation of FAO's policies on gender equality and on indigenous and tribal peoples.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Release date: Oct 10, 2023
• ISBN: 9789251382332

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PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT

This report brings our organizations together again to reaffirm that, if we do not redouble and better target our efforts, our goal of ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030 will remain out of reach. Although the world is recovering from the global pandemic, this is occurring unevenly across and within countries. On top of this, the world is grappling with the consequences of the ongoing war in Ukraine, which has shaken food and energy markets.

Cecilia Ballesteros, Claudia Brito, Verónica Chicas, Catalina Ivanovic, Mauricio Mireles, and Alejandra Safa Barraza (FAO); Carolina Franch (University of Chile), and Micaela Bazzano, Anabella Benedetti, Blas Fernández, Jimena Parga, Facundo Revuelta, Sara Sanz and María del Carmen Tamargo (FLACSO Argentina) were involved in this guide.

We thank the Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches to Achieve Food Security and Nutrition (JP GTA) - implemented by FAO, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Food Programme (WFP), and backed by the European Union- for providing financial and technical support.

Lois Archimbaud (FAO), Mariana Estrada (FAO), Marion Khamis (FAO), and Tania Martínez (FAO) reviewed this document, Marcela Sanguineti acted as editor, and Natalia Geisse was in charge of the layout.

CONTENTS

Preparation of this document

Acronyms

Introduction

1. INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

2. THE INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH: DEFINITIONS, HISTORY, AND SCOPE

2.1