Access and Control of Food in the Household
- 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...
- Gender, Food Security and AIDS in Internally Displaced People's Camps in Uganda: implications for HIV Responsive Policy and Programming
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
- This two-page brief provides an overview of research conducted in 2007-08 into the interactions between gender relations, HIV and AIDS and food security in war-affected communities in Northern Uganda. Firstly it reviews the policy and...
- Focus on women, World Food Programme (WFP)
- WFP's work on food security and women
- 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...
- 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...
- Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities
- Delia Grace; Tom Randolph; Janice Olawoye; Erastus Kang'ethe / Development in Practice, 2008
- Women play the major role in food supply in developing countries, but too often their ability to feed their families properly is compromised; the result is high levels of food-borne disease and consequent limited access to higher-valu...
- The right to food from a gender perspective: a consideration of international law and state practice
- I. Rae / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008
- This paper provides a cross-cutting analysis of the right to food from a gender perspective, examining relevant international instruments as well as state practice. The discussion is placed in the context of the Millenn...
- 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...
- Gender, Food Security and AIDS in Internally Displaced People's Camps in Uganda: implications for HIV Responsive Policy and Programming
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
- This two-page brief provides an overview of research conducted in 2007-08 into the interactions between gender relations, HIV and AIDS and food security in war-affected communities in Northern Uganda. Firstly it reviews the policy and...
- 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...
- 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...
- Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities
- Delia Grace; Tom Randolph; Janice Olawoye; Erastus Kang'ethe / Development in Practice, 2008
- Women play the major role in food supply in developing countries, but too often their ability to feed their families properly is compromised; the result is high levels of food-borne disease and consequent limited access to higher-valu...
- The right to food from a gender perspective: a consideration of international law and state practice
- I. Rae / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008
- This paper provides a cross-cutting analysis of the right to food from a gender perspective, examining relevant international instruments as well as state practice. The discussion is placed in the context of the Millenn...
- How household gender relations affect the success of development projects
- A. Quisumbing; B. McClafferty / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006
- This book addresses gender and intrahousehold issues that influence gender equality as well as the success of development interventions. The book is a non-technical presentation of research findings from IFPRI’s research programm...
- Focus on women, World Food Programme (WFP)
- WFP's work on food security and women
