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Violent conflict is the single greatest driver of food crises globally, and both conflict and food insecurity are profoundly gendered. Yet the intersection of these phenomena – the gendered dimensions of hunger and food rights in peacebuilding – has received remarkably little systematic attention in research, policy, or practice.
The Gendered Dimensions of Hunger in Peacebuilding (GDHP) project set out to address this gap, generating the first rigorous, comparative evidence on how, when, and why the gendered dimensions of food insecurity and food rights have been integrated – or excluded – from peacebuilding policy and practice across a diverse set of conflict and post-conflict contexts. Our synthesis report draws on three years of partnership-based joint leadership of multi-method, multi-country research across South Sudan, Liberia, South Africa, Colombia, and Ukraine, alongside the first comprehensive mappings of food in peace agreements and in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) policy agenda.
PROJECT OVERVIEW
The Gendered Dimensions of Hunger in Peacebuilding (GDHP) project investigates whether and how gendered aspects of food insecurity and food rights have been addressed in peacebuilding and peace processes. It seeks to understand how women and girls’, and men and boys’, experiences of food insecurity and/or violations of their right to food during conflict, have been considered and included in post-conflict transitions.
The project is co-led by Dr Caitriona Dowd at University College Dublin, Ireland and Ms Liezelle Kumalo at Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Johannesburg, South Africa.
GDHP is co-funded by the Irish Research Council and the Department of Foreign Affairs through a COALESCE grant and runs from June 2023 to May 2026.
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