Productive farmers and vulnerable food securers: contradictions of gender expertise in international food security discourse

With gender equality becoming a key feature of the global food security agenda, international organizations have produced rich body knowledge on gender. This paper argues that such expertise generates political effects through identity constructions, problem definitions and rationalities. We critically analyse 59 documents relating to in South written between 2000 2018. Our analysis reveals two gendered constructions articulated these – productive female farmer caring woman securer. demonstrate definitions, solutions, rationalities associated with are contradictory. Their juxtaposition discourse is not only governed by neoliberal orthodoxy but also surfaces ambivalences alternatives.