Content
It is crucial to pay due attention to the connection between healthy nutrition, climate change and gender equality – known as the ‘food-climate-gender nexus’, as it can help reduce hunger and ensure healthy nutrition for all. This is a prerequisite for long-term development around the world and successful transformation of agricultural and food systems.
The European Commission (EC) and Germany are therefore working to align food policies more closely with climate and gender justice. The additional support of the member countries of the international initiative ‘Scaling Up Nutrition’ (SUN) is helping to implement future-proof nutrition strategies.
Objective
The food-climate-gender nexus is more visible in the relevant global policy processes and in regional and national policy processes.
Approach
The project contributes to making the food-climate-gender nexus more visible in global work plans and to developing coordinated positions between the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the European Union (EU). As part of this, it provides technical advice to the EC, Germany and EU member states.
In SUN member countries, the project promotes the implementation of international nutrition policies. This includes the development of a guiding framework and regional exchange formats.
The project also supports civil society networks so they can position themselves in, and contribute their technical expertise to, the development and implementation of food policies at global, regional and national levels.