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.
- Challenging gender inequality in farmers' organisations in Nicaragua
- Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- Food insecurity and malnutrition are chronic in Nicaragua yet rural women's food growing activities are often overlooked. Efforts made by the National Federation of Cooperatives (FENACOOP), a farmers' organisation in rural Nicar...
- Maize diversity and gender: research from Mexico
- Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- The development of high-yielding maize varieties has been a national strategy used in Mexico to address food insecurity. However the continued cultivation of diverse local maize varieties is essential to the improvement of high-...
- Agricultural livelihoods and nutrition - exploring the links with women in Zambia
- Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- This article examines women's agricultural livelihoods, food security and nutrition in five villages across three districts in the Western Province, Zambia in 2009. The aim of the research commissioned by Concern Worldwide (UK) was to...
- Gender inequality, mothers' health, and unequal distribution of food: experience from a CARE project in India
- Suniti Neogy / Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- This article features the project Inner Spaces Outer Faces Imitative (ISOFI) which aims to improve maternal and new born health outcomes in rural Uttar Pradesh, primarily by challenging gender norms which prevent equal distribution of...
- Nutrition and Food Security Impacts of Agricultural projects: a review of experience
- US Agency for International Development, 2011
- Agricultural projects are often justified on the basis that they improve household food security and nutrition yet the effects are rarely measured. This short review summarises the findings of the few studies over the past 30 years, w...
- Gender: A Key Dimension Linking Agricultural Programs to Improved Nutrition and Health
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011
- This four-page brief highlights the need for a gender equitable approach to standard agricultural development strategies in order to in improve the livelihoods and well-being of rural poor. Evidence shows that increasing women's...
- Supporting women producers to respond to the challenges of food insecurity
- FAO, WOCAN and Huairou Commission, 2010
- What is the impact of food insecurity on women producers? The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and the Women Organization for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) partnered with the Huariou Commission ...
- Food price hikes, food security, and gender equality: assessing the roles and vulnerability of women in households of Bangladesh and Ethiopia
- Dr Zenebe Bashaw Uraguchi / Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- This article, based on research into the effects of the sudden rise in food prices from 2007 – 2008, shows how women responded to food insecurity in farming households in areas of Bangladesh and Ethiopia. In 2008 these two count...
- Achieving Nutritional Impact and Food Security through Agriculture
- US Agency for International Development, 2011
- Ensuring that agricultural projects have a positive effect on local people's food security and nutritional well being is essential. This four-page fact sheet presents key issues that intersect between agriculture, food security and nu...
- No significant differences in food security between male and female-headed households in Bangladesh
- D. Mallick; M. Rafi / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2010
- This paper uses household and village-level survey data to investigate the food security of male- and female-headed households in Bangladesh with particular attention to indigenous ethnic groups. The measure of food security is based ...
- Maize diversity and gender: research from Mexico
- Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- The development of high-yielding maize varieties has been a national strategy used in Mexico to address food insecurity. However the continued cultivation of diverse local maize varieties is essential to the improvement of high-...
- Agricultural livelihoods and nutrition - exploring the links with women in Zambia
- Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- This article examines women's agricultural livelihoods, food security and nutrition in five villages across three districts in the Western Province, Zambia in 2009. The aim of the research commissioned by Concern Worldwide (UK) was to...
- Gender inequality, mothers' health, and unequal distribution of food: experience from a CARE project in India
- Suniti Neogy / Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- This article features the project Inner Spaces Outer Faces Imitative (ISOFI) which aims to improve maternal and new born health outcomes in rural Uttar Pradesh, primarily by challenging gender norms which prevent equal distribution of...
- Nutrition and Food Security Impacts of Agricultural projects: a review of experience
- US Agency for International Development, 2011
- Agricultural projects are often justified on the basis that they improve household food security and nutrition yet the effects are rarely measured. This short review summarises the findings of the few studies over the past 30 years, w...
- Gender: A Key Dimension Linking Agricultural Programs to Improved Nutrition and Health
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011
- This four-page brief highlights the need for a gender equitable approach to standard agricultural development strategies in order to in improve the livelihoods and well-being of rural poor. Evidence shows that increasing women's...
- Supporting women producers to respond to the challenges of food insecurity
- FAO, WOCAN and Huairou Commission, 2010
- What is the impact of food insecurity on women producers? The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and the Women Organization for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) partnered with the Huariou Commission ...
- Food price hikes, food security, and gender equality: assessing the roles and vulnerability of women in households of Bangladesh and Ethiopia
- Dr Zenebe Bashaw Uraguchi / Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- This article, based on research into the effects of the sudden rise in food prices from 2007 – 2008, shows how women responded to food insecurity in farming households in areas of Bangladesh and Ethiopia. In 2008 these two count...
- Achieving Nutritional Impact and Food Security through Agriculture
- US Agency for International Development, 2011
- Ensuring that agricultural projects have a positive effect on local people's food security and nutritional well being is essential. This four-page fact sheet presents key issues that intersect between agriculture, food security and nu...
- No significant differences in food security between male and female-headed households in Bangladesh
- D. Mallick; M. Rafi / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2010
- This paper uses household and village-level survey data to investigate the food security of male- and female-headed households in Bangladesh with particular attention to indigenous ethnic groups. The measure of food security is based ...
- Why is it so difficult to ensure effective nutrition on a transnational basis?
- S. S. Morris; B. Cogill; R. Uauy / The Lancet, 2008
- Many transnational organisations work to support efforts to eliminate maternal and child undernutrition in high-burden countries. Financial, intellectual, and personal linkages bind these organisations loosely together as components o...
- Focus on women, World Food Programme (WFP)
- WFP's work on food security and women
