**4. Gender definition**

Gender empirically encompasses both males and females. From a cultural and discursive perspective [21], gender ideology refers to the beliefs and values held concerning what is right for men and women and determines the patterns by which a particular society judges or evaluates the appropriate conduct of a man or woman. The following lines illustrate gender concepts for a better understanding [22, 23].


• *Gender violence, is* any act or threat by male-dominated institutions that inflicts physical, sexual or psychological harm on women or girls.

The paper considers gender in an original binary logic (masculine/feminine) to finally focus exclusively on the female gender. It inspects the contribution of the female gender to different sectors to identify its potentialities that can be beneficial in the fight for food security.
