Food and gender
Between 25 November and 1 December,
we invite you to take part in the
UOC’s 2019 Right to Food Week:
seven days in which experts will promote aware and sustainable nutrition and explain the right of
all people to have access to a healthy diet,
especially from a gender perspective.
#Right2FoodUOC
2019 Right to food week
Did you know that the global food crisis affects mainly women? Culturally, they are usually further removed from resources and, therefore, usually have greater difficulties in accessing food, both producing it and properly consuming it.
Inequalities in the right to food are more evident among women, as they often earn less and are unable to buy or produce food of adequate quantity and quality to live healthily.
The right to food is a gender issue
Between 25 November and 1 December 2019, the UOC will be presenting an awareness campaign and a programme of activities highlighting the issue of food and gender. Throughout the week, we will be focusing on the causes and impact of gender inequalities on nutrition, and we will be exploring possible solutions to reduce these effects.
We are also inviting you to From Mexico to Barcelona, kitchen and women. From private space to conveying cultural heritage, a very special cookery workshop followed by a debate, which will be at the MACBA in Barcelona on 27 November, and which will bring together projects by female chefs from Barcelona and Mexico.
For the fifth year, the UOC is contributing to raising awareness for the United Nations’ goals for transforming the world, which include promoting the right to food, gender equality and sustainable consumption and production.
Organizers: the UOC Faculty of Health Sciences, the UNESCO Chair on Food, Culture and Development and Globalization and Cooperation.
2019 Right to food week videos
Gender inequality in the right to food
Activities
Resources
Food and gender Dossier
Are you curious to find out more about seasonal food and gender? The UOC Library’s Learning Services has prepared a dossier so that you can read about these issues.