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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- Briefing paper presenting lessons learned from working with women smallholders on food security
- R. Tripathi;K. Deering;N. Saracini / 2012
- This briefing paper is the result of a collaboration between nine different agencies, sharing lessons learned from working with women smallholders in order to close the gender gap in agriculture. Desp...
- Factsheet: disability inclusion in drought and food crisis emergency response
- AlertNet, the Reuter Foundation, 2012
- Purpose: This factsheet provides base level information to practitioners for awareness raising, training, advocacy, project design and proposal writing. The information may be used and sent out widely...
- Feminist perspectives towards transforming economic power: topic 1 food sovereignty
- P. Caro / Association for Women's Rights in Development , 2011
- This article, written by Chilean feminist researcher Pamela Caro presents key elements of the concept of food sovereignty. She unpacks the history of food sovereignty from its origins in the experienc...
- Integrating gender issues in food security, agriculture and rural development
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2010
- In line with ongoing reforms aimed at a more effective and coherent UN system and wider efforts for greater harmonization and alignment of aid delivery, Joint Programmes have become increasingly numer...
- The gendered dimensions of food security in South Africa: a review of the literature
- V. Reddy / Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2011
- Since the mid-1970s, the African continent has been the only region that has been unable to feed its own population. South Africa could face a plight similar to other sub-Saharan African countries. Cu...
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