Gender Dynamics in Northwest Syria’s Agri-Food Landscape

Author: Mazen Gharibah

This report examines the gender dynamics of the agri-food sector in northwest Syria, with a main focus on the contextual challenges facing women in terms of accessibility to productive resources, such as physical assets, agricultural inputs, financial services and agricultural-related formal and informal networks across the different levels of the value chain. It derives its analytical framework from the FAO Gender-Sensitive Value Chain (GSVC), while contextualising its key components to the institutional and socioeconomic dynamics in northwest Syria, in addition to a series of key informant interviews and two in-country focus group discussions with a diverse set of stakeholders, including women farmers, owners of home-made agri-food workshops and representatives of quasi-state agricultural governance structures. It concludes with a set of policy recommendations aimed at western donor agencies and policymakers.

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