Food security and gender
Recognising the role of women as food producers and managers of household food security; access and control of food in the household; nutrition; tools for analysing gender within food security initiatives.
- Food and nutrition security, health and gender equality: partnerships for climate-resilient sustainable development
- Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization, 2012
- This policy brief provides key recommendations with a view to RIO+20 and the post 2015 MDG agenda. It argues that food and nutrition security, climate change, health, gender equality and environmental degradation are closely interlink...
- Gender, IFIs and the global food crisis case study: Zambia
- S Bibler; C Lauterbach / Gender Action, 2012
- With 63% of Zambians living on less than $1.25 per day, poverty and food security are widespread. This case study argues that International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have contributed to this food insecurity due to neoliberal struc...
- Gender resource portal of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
- The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) gender resource portal includes many resources on gender, food and nutrition security. It contains a number of links to publications on gender and agricultural growth and techno...
- Creating gender-responsive agricultural development programs: an orientation document
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2012
- This document provides an overview of gender issues in agricultural development, and describes the kind of gender-responsive programmes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is looking to fund. Some of the topics it highlights are: ...
- Biodiversity, women, and nutritionists are the “three pillars” for functional foods in Brazil
- AgEcon Search, 2011
- Functional food is any healthy food claimed to have a health-promoting or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients. This study aims at investigating the consumer market for functional foods (FF) in ...
- Gender influences in child survival, health and nutrition: a narrative review
- E Richards / United Nations Children's Fund, 2011
- There is increasing recognition in the field of international health and nutrition that gender inequities and dynamics are a major social determinant of health and nutrition outcomes. However, reviews of evidence to date have tended t...
- 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. Despite making up 43 per cent of the a...
- 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, with reference to the Kenya Red ...
- 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 experience of the peasants’ movement, ...
- 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 numerous over the past two years. Joint...
- Food and nutrition security, health and gender equality: partnerships for climate-resilient sustainable development
- Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization, 2012
- This policy brief provides key recommendations with a view to RIO+20 and the post 2015 MDG agenda. It argues that food and nutrition security, climate change, health, gender equality and environmental degradation are closely interlink...
- Gender, IFIs and the global food crisis case study: Zambia
- S Bibler; C Lauterbach / Gender Action, 2012
- With 63% of Zambians living on less than $1.25 per day, poverty and food security are widespread. This case study argues that International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have contributed to this food insecurity due to neoliberal struc...
- Gender resource portal of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
- The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) gender resource portal includes many resources on gender, food and nutrition security. It contains a number of links to publications on gender and agricultural growth and techno...
- Creating gender-responsive agricultural development programs: an orientation document
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2012
- This document provides an overview of gender issues in agricultural development, and describes the kind of gender-responsive programmes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is looking to fund. Some of the topics it highlights are: ...
- Biodiversity, women, and nutritionists are the “three pillars” for functional foods in Brazil
- AgEcon Search, 2011
- Functional food is any healthy food claimed to have a health-promoting or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients. This study aims at investigating the consumer market for functional foods (FF) in ...
- Gender influences in child survival, health and nutrition: a narrative review
- E Richards / United Nations Children's Fund, 2011
- There is increasing recognition in the field of international health and nutrition that gender inequities and dynamics are a major social determinant of health and nutrition outcomes. However, reviews of evidence to date have tended t...
- 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. Despite making up 43 per cent of the a...
- 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, with reference to the Kenya Red ...
- 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 experience of the peasants’ movement, ...
- 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 numerous over the past two years. Joint...
- Focus on women, World Food Programme (WFP)
- WFP's work on food security and women
