Harms to Community Food Security Resulting from Gender-Based Violence

While the right to food and community self-reliance underpin current knowledge interpretation of security (CFS), literature on CFS seldom accounts for ways in which gender-based violence (GBV) disrupts undermines CFS. In this review, we make case that GBV contexts manifests as a continuum, involving different forms blend into reinforce each other, fueling social degradation undermining capacity system workers prioritise pursue We show harms resulting from manifest through (i) GBV-induced degradation, (ii) erosion moral ethical values anchoring CFS, (iii) disruption crucial systems sustainability pathways (iv) challenges, behaviours activities workers, (v) crippling community-level on-farm off-farm value chains, oftentimes disrupt access, consumption utilisation. further outline diversion funds prevention services may reduce CFS-related economic outputs efforts are GBV-blind can undermine agency pushing them decisions conclude there is dearth information how mainstream GBV-sensitivity plans, it unclear whether GBV-responsive initiatives enhance legitimacy GBV-exposed settings. suggest spectrum what considered “community” relation be expanded; scholars practitioners pay attention dynamics GBV, focusing occurring at individual household levels spills over communities Finally, since not only human rights violation issue but also catalyst insecurity, encourage refocusing early detection across specific community-level, chains order better ties foster security.