Preface

Abstract

THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SUSTAINABILITY (THE 2ND ICAFOSY): GENDER AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENTAgricultural development is a kind of resource management effort that uses environmentally friendly approaches to ensure long-term agricultural production capacity and improve farmers’ welfare. Natural resource differences indicate diversity in their management in order to meet the sustainability of providing products for humans and development. A lack of clarity in defining the type or characteristics of the resource, as well as an error in managing it, will result in resource damage, if not destruction.In the current era of globalization, inequity in human access to natural resources and agricultural land is also a source of concern. There are significant gender inequalities in the implementation of access to land resource management in terms of rewarding women for the roles they play in resource conservation, utilization, and preservation, as well as the sustainability of the results. Women have a strong bond with nature. They have more interaction with the environment and natural resources as household managers. Pollution directly affects women and children.The existence of global events globally affected human life in meeting their daily needs on natural resources, and this is why the Laboratory of Rural Sociology and Community Empowerment, Department of Socio-Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Brawijaya held an International Conference titled “The 2nd International Conference on Agriculture and Food Sustainability (The 2nd ICAFOSY): Gender and Sustainable Agriculture Development.”The conference was held in a hybrid format on the 17th and 18th of October 2022 at the Grand Mercure Malang hotel because conditions and situations were not completely normal after the pandemic. Besides, it provides an ideal forum for discussing the state of natural resource management, particularly in the agricultural sector, during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as an overview of the critical role of women and men in managing Natural Resources, particularly in the agricultural sector.ChairpersonDr. Asihing Kustanti, S. Hut, M. Si.List of Committees are available in this pdf.