Gender, agriculture and food security
Women produce half of the world’s food production and in most developing countries they produce between 60% and 80% of the food. However women continue to be regarded as home producers or assistants on the farm, and not as farmers in their own right.
In many developing countries, men generally own the land. Therefore women may lack access to land, water rights and livestock. Women often do not have access to the appropriate technology, tools and inputs for farming productively, and receive a small fraction of assistance for agricultural investment. Women also face many underlying barriers, particularly time (and energy) constraints given their other multiple and often competing roles.
In many developing countries, men generally own the land. Therefore women may lack access to land, water rights and livestock. Women often do not have access to the appropriate technology, tools and inputs for farming productively, and receive a small fraction of assistance for agricultural investment. Women also face many underlying barriers, particularly time (and energy) constraints given their other multiple and often competing roles.
- Gender in agriculture sourcebook
- The Sourcebook adopts the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) to provide a conceptual framework for the complexities and synergies of gender equality, livelihoods, food security, and poverty reduction. It provides practical advice, guidelines, principles, descriptions and illustrations of approaches that have worked so far to achieve the goal of effective gender mainstreaming in the agricultural operations of development agencies.It is intended as a guide for practitioners and technical staff in addressing gender issues and integrating gender-responsive actions in the design and implementation of agricultural projects and programmes.
Latest Additions
- 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. Desp...
- 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 numer...
- 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 vari...
- 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 conte...
- 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,...
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