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.
- Gender and Collective Action: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005
- This paper presents a framework for investigating the intersection of collective action and gender to better understand how gender-oriented analysis can foster effective collective action in the context of agriculture and natural reso...
- Gender and asset ownership: a guide to collecting individual-level data
- World Bank, 2008
- Ownership and control over assets such as land and housing provide direct and indirect benefits to individuals and households, including a secure place to live, the means of a livelihood, protection during emergencies, and collateral ...
- Trends in climate variability that men and women farmers face to ensure food security
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
- This report presents the findings of research undertaken in six villages in two drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh in India Mahbubnagar and Anantapur. This FAO study uses gender, institutional, and climate analyses to document ...
- Rural women and food security in Asia and the Pacific: Prospects and paradoxes
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
- In many Asian and Pacific countries, substantial gender equality gains have been made in urban areas in education, health and employment, yet rural women lag behind. Moreover, rural women’s work is multifaceted and demanding bot...
- Promoting Gender Equitable Opportunities in Agricultural Value Chains: A Handbook
- US Agency for International Development, 2009
- Gender issues fundamentally shape the production, distribution, and consumption within an economy but have often been overlooked in value chain development. A value chain describes the full sequence of activities required to bring a p...
- Agriculture, trade negotiations and gender
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006
- Women and men in developing countries have different roles in agriculture, and different access to and use of productive resources, therefore the effects of trade liberalisation have had diverse impacts on both, often with women losin...
- What are “women's crops”, and why?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
- This online article highlights how gender inequalities can limit women to certain choices which prevent them from developing profitable farming activities. For example, many women farmers tend to grow lower-value subsistence crops whe...
- Agri-Gender Statistics Toolkit
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
- This free online database, created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States (FAO), aims to support and encourage the use of sex-disaggregated agricultural data in development projects. It was developed as a direct...
- Transforming gender in homestead food production
- Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- In Bangladesh, Helen Keller International (HKI) is known for its homestead food production (HFP) programme, which promotes small-scale agriculture among women, specifically to improve women's and children's nutrition outcomes. To achi...
- Food Security and Livelihoods Assessments: A Practical Guide for Field Workers
- Action Against Hunger, 2010
- This practical guide is intended to be used by food security and livelihood project managers responsible for undertaking rapid and in-depth assessments in emergency, recovery and crisis contexts. Assessments are carried out duri...
- Gender and Collective Action: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005
- This paper presents a framework for investigating the intersection of collective action and gender to better understand how gender-oriented analysis can foster effective collective action in the context of agriculture and natural reso...
- Gender and asset ownership: a guide to collecting individual-level data
- World Bank, 2008
- Ownership and control over assets such as land and housing provide direct and indirect benefits to individuals and households, including a secure place to live, the means of a livelihood, protection during emergencies, and collateral ...
- Trends in climate variability that men and women farmers face to ensure food security
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
- This report presents the findings of research undertaken in six villages in two drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh in India Mahbubnagar and Anantapur. This FAO study uses gender, institutional, and climate analyses to document ...
- Rural women and food security in Asia and the Pacific: Prospects and paradoxes
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
- In many Asian and Pacific countries, substantial gender equality gains have been made in urban areas in education, health and employment, yet rural women lag behind. Moreover, rural women’s work is multifaceted and demanding bot...
- Promoting Gender Equitable Opportunities in Agricultural Value Chains: A Handbook
- US Agency for International Development, 2009
- Gender issues fundamentally shape the production, distribution, and consumption within an economy but have often been overlooked in value chain development. A value chain describes the full sequence of activities required to bring a p...
- Agriculture, trade negotiations and gender
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006
- Women and men in developing countries have different roles in agriculture, and different access to and use of productive resources, therefore the effects of trade liberalisation have had diverse impacts on both, often with women losin...
- What are “women's crops”, and why?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
- This online article highlights how gender inequalities can limit women to certain choices which prevent them from developing profitable farming activities. For example, many women farmers tend to grow lower-value subsistence crops whe...
- Agri-Gender Statistics Toolkit
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
- This free online database, created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States (FAO), aims to support and encourage the use of sex-disaggregated agricultural data in development projects. It was developed as a direct...
- Transforming gender in homestead food production
- Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- In Bangladesh, Helen Keller International (HKI) is known for its homestead food production (HFP) programme, which promotes small-scale agriculture among women, specifically to improve women's and children's nutrition outcomes. To achi...
- Food Security and Livelihoods Assessments: A Practical Guide for Field Workers
- Action Against Hunger, 2010
- This practical guide is intended to be used by food security and livelihood project managers responsible for undertaking rapid and in-depth assessments in emergency, recovery and crisis contexts. Assessments are carried out duri...
- Focus on women, World Food Programme (WFP)
- WFP's work on food security and women
