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.
- 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. Currently there are approximately 14...
- Empowering rural women for food and nutrition security
- United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2011
- Women are essential to defeat hunger and malnutrition. Yet rural women remain disproportionately affected by poverty as well as unequal access to productive resources and social services, such as health and education. In the global en...
- Gender, IFIs and food insecurity
- A. Fook / Gender Action, 2011
- Gender Action's analysis demonstrates that IFI-led macroeconomic, financial and trade policies in developing countries intensify gender inequalities by disproportionately impoverishing women and girls. IFIs policies must not only alle...
- Investing in agriculture in Burundi: improving food security and conditions for women farmers
- P. San Pedro / Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2011
- Burundi has alarming levels of food insecurity for a country dependent on agriculture. The work of women farmers is at the core of agriculture in Burundi, but they have few rights and very limited access to resources. Investment in th...
- Incorporating gender issues into plant breeding approaches
- C.R. Farnworth; J. Jiggins / Participatory Research and Gender Analysis Program, CGIAR, 2003
- 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’ experience with Gender Analysis (GA) and u...
- 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
- 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. This report reviews current thinking...
- Discrimination and food rights
- UN Human Rights Council, 2010
- 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 covers discrimination in terms of regi...
- 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, technology, farm labour, extension servi...
- Food security and gender insights
- S. Turrall (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS, 2012
- 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 critical role as food producers, consum...
- Access, Adoption, and Diffusion: Understanding the Long-term Impacts of Improved Vegetable and Fish Technologies in Bangladesh
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2010
- Malnutrition continues to be a serious problem in Bangladesh. In 1996–1997, households were surveyed in three sites to examine the effects of the adoption (two years prior) of new vegetable varieties and polyculture fishpond man...
- 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. Currently there are approximately 14...
- Empowering rural women for food and nutrition security
- United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2011
- Women are essential to defeat hunger and malnutrition. Yet rural women remain disproportionately affected by poverty as well as unequal access to productive resources and social services, such as health and education. In the global en...
- Gender, IFIs and food insecurity
- A. Fook / Gender Action, 2011
- Gender Action's analysis demonstrates that IFI-led macroeconomic, financial and trade policies in developing countries intensify gender inequalities by disproportionately impoverishing women and girls. IFIs policies must not only alle...
- Investing in agriculture in Burundi: improving food security and conditions for women farmers
- P. San Pedro / Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2011
- Burundi has alarming levels of food insecurity for a country dependent on agriculture. The work of women farmers is at the core of agriculture in Burundi, but they have few rights and very limited access to resources. Investment in th...
- Incorporating gender issues into plant breeding approaches
- C.R. Farnworth; J. Jiggins / Participatory Research and Gender Analysis Program, CGIAR, 2003
- 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’ experience with Gender Analysis (GA) and u...
- 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
- 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. This report reviews current thinking...
- Discrimination and food rights
- UN Human Rights Council, 2010
- 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 covers discrimination in terms of regi...
- 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, technology, farm labour, extension servi...
- Food security and gender insights
- S. Turrall (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS, 2012
- 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 critical role as food producers, consum...
- Access, Adoption, and Diffusion: Understanding the Long-term Impacts of Improved Vegetable and Fish Technologies in Bangladesh
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2010
- Malnutrition continues to be a serious problem in Bangladesh. In 1996–1997, households were surveyed in three sites to examine the effects of the adoption (two years prior) of new vegetable varieties and polyculture fishpond man...
- Focus on women, World Food Programme (WFP)
- WFP's work on food security and women
