Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Recommendation for Brazil, par. 194 (a) (2012)

Text of the recommendation

194. In addition to the information above, the following measures warrant mention for contributing the stronger public policies for rural women:

(a)Creation of the Working Group on Gender, Sovereignty, and Food and Nutritional Security (Grupo de Trabalho de Gênero, Soberania e Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional) – a component body of the National Council on Food and Nutritional Security (Conselho Nacional de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional – CONSEA), for the purpose of strengthening the interface between these two areas of government action (Gender and Food Security), enabling, at once: (i) progress on the consideration of women’s leading role in food production and defense of food sovereignty; (ii) follow-up of the implementation of the National Food and Security Plan (Plano Nacional de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional) and the priorities identified within the framework of women’s policies, with a view to evaluation of the productive incorporation of women in rural and forest areas as well as their status in regard to the consumptions of and access to adequate food (in particular, socially vulnerable women); (iii) contributions to expanded and improved data and indicators on the relationship between gender and food security;