High-Level Political Forum 2025 Side Event: Re-imagining the future of women in agrifood systems: Promoting women’s land rights, decent employment and innovative partnerships to advance the SDGs
14/07/2025
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Side event at the High-Level Political Forum 2025
14 July 2025 | 13:15-14:30 EDT
Conference Room 12, United Nations headquarters, New York
Globally, women are disproportionately affected by land tenure insecurity, due to structural inequalities and weak governance systems. Compounding this, many women remain in informal, part-time, low-quality and low skill jobs, despite their significant contribution to agrifood systems.
Women’s land rights are crucial for women’s well-being, economic empowerment, and participation, and for broader development outcomes, like poverty reduction and food security. They are key to accelerating progress on SDG 5 and interconnected development goals. Enhanced tenure security and women's empowerment correlate with better health, nutrition and access to services (SDG 3) and enable greater economic engagement in agrifood systems (SDG 8). Multi-stakeholder platforms and innovative partnerships (SDG 17), like FAO's Commit to Grow Equality (CGE) initiative and the Global Land Observatory, are pivotal to fostering responsible land governance, accelerate data analysis and use and drive action.
Anchored in the 2025 High-Level Political Forum theme of “advancing sustainable, inclusive, science- and evidence-based solutions for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals for leaving no one behind”, this side event will explore evidence-based approaches and innovative partnerships to advance women’s land rights and decent employment for transformative change in agrifood systems.
This event is organized by FAO with Germany, the United Republic of Tanzania and UN Women.
