Food security and gender
Women in their roles as producers and managers of household food security often bear primary responsibility for maintaining household consumption and nutrition in the face of mounting costs. However they are often impeded in their efforts by limited access to assets, traditional norms, and the challenges posed by their often competing roles.
The Irish Aid-funded Hunger Task Force (2008) highlighted the need for a more gender sensitive response to hunger. The myriad linkages between food security and gender are rarely well understood. Here we have collated resources around four key themes:
- Gender, Agriculture and Food Security
- Gender, Access and Control of Food in the Household
- Gender and Nutrition
- Disaggregating Gender within Food Security Initiatives – Tools and Methodologies
- Women, food security and agriculture in global marketplace
- Despite evidence that gender-informed approaches are needed to bolster women’s roles and productivity, they are not yet a mainstay of development and agricultural programmes. This gap persists largely because decision makers continue to regard women as home producers or “assistants” in farm households, and not as farmers and economic agents in their own right.
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- Incorporating gender issues into plant breeding approaches
- ( Participatory Research and Gender Analysis Program, CGIAR , 2012)
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This paper aims to analyse methods and approaches currently used within participatory plant breeding (PPB) with respect to gender issues and to draw out the implications of researchers’ exper...
- Women, food security and agriculture in a global marketplace: A significant shift
- ( R. Mehra;M. Hill Rojas / International Center for Research on Women, USA , 2008)
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New directions in development assistance and agricultural investments must recognize and support women's involvement in the full agricultural value chain from production to processing to marketing....
- Discrimination and food rights
- ( UN Human Rights Council , 2010)
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This study on discrimination in the context of the right to food was produced for the fourth session of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council held in February 2010. The study c...
- The benefits of increasing women’s access to agricultural resources
- ( Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2011)
- Women account for a high proportion of farmers in many developing countries yet often have very little access to the resources they need to support their livelihoods, including land, livestock, techno...
- Food security and gender insights
- ( S. Turrall (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS , 2012)
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This issue of insights shows how development policy and practice can potentially improve food security while supporting women’s empowerment. They can focus on women’s cr...
