ABSTRACT
COVID-19 and response measures have major economic implications, including for global value chains, and these implications are gendered. Consequently, unlike other chapters that are highly researched, this epilogue is a collective thought piece with our initial thoughts that might form the basis of future research. Large inequalities between women, men persist in terms of salaries, job security, social protection, unemployment benefits, and health insurance. With their insecure contracts, women are vulnerable to losing their jobs, incomes, economic independence. Women are responsible for a disproportionate share of the additional unpaid care work within households, communities. As COVID-19 spreads, the knock-on effects on global food systems unfold, lessons learned from past pandemics on gender impacts reinforce the centrality of sound gender analysis for both preparedness and response efforts to the crisis. The impact on the production, processing of food for consumption, sale will also be greatly impacted by closing borders, lockdowns, and social distancing, which may threaten consumers’ food supply.
