Gender, Food and COVID-19

Paige Castellanos is currently an Assistant Research Professor at Pennsylvania State University, US, in Ag Sciences Global and Rural Sociology. She is the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture (Routledge, 2020). Carolyn E. Sachs is Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University, US. She is the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture (Routledge, 2020) and editor of Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations (Routledge, 2019). Ann R. Tickamyer is Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography at Pennsylvania State University, US. She is the author and editor of multiple books, including Rural Poverty in the United States (2017, with Jennifer Sherman and Jennifer Warlick).

• Introduction Part 1. Food insecurity 1. COVID-19, gender, and small-scale farming in Nepal 2. Gender implications of COVID-19 in Cambodia 3. COVID-19, India, small-scale farmers, and indigenous Adivasi communities – the answer to the future lies in going back to basics 4. Social aspects of women’s agribusiness in times of COVID-19 in the Central Highlands of Vietnam Part 2. Care work in families, households, and communities 5. Covid-19, gender, agriculture, and future research 6. Renegotiating care from the local to global Part 3. Intersectional inequalities in the food system 7. Facing COVID-19 in rural Honduras: experiences of an indigenous women’s association 8. Cultivating community resilience: working in solidarity in and beyond crisis 9. COVID-19, migrant workers, and meatpacking in US agriculture: a critical feminist reflection 10. Queerness in the US agrifood system during COVID-19 11. Food corporation allegiance or worker solidarity? Summoning restaurant worker solidarity in the age of COVID-19 Part 4. Beyond COVID: moving forward with policy and research 12. COVID-19 and feminist methods: one year later 13. The importance of sex-disaggregated and gender data to a gender-inclusive COVID-19 response in the aquatic food systems 14. In and out of place 15. Beyond COVID-19: building the resilience of vulnerable communities in African food systems Conclusion

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