Gender and food security
- Overcoming hunger in South Asia by empowering women
- Despite the progress in food production and availability, nutrition levels of women and children in South Asia remain exceptionally low. This paper explores various aspects of the relationship between women and food security in the region that may contribute to this discrepancy.
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- Women and food security
- ( R. Mehra;M. H. Rojas / International Center for Research on Women, USA , 2009)
- The steep increase in global food prices has added nearly 100 million people to the numbers who are chronically hungry, pushing the world total to nearly 1 billion people. Amid a global financial cris...
- Women and gender: the impact of change in Ethiopian government's policy on rights based NGOs
- ( B. Maal;S. Skalnes / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation , 2009)
- This paper includes a gender review of the Norwegian embassy’s portfolio in Ethiopia on natural resource management and food security. The paper aims at identifying ways and means of addressing ...
- Gender in Agriculture from a sustainable livelihoods approach
- ( L. Brown;Y. Lambrou;R. Birner / International Fund for Agricultural Development , 2008)
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This sourcebook combines descriptive accounts of national and international experience in investing in agriculture with practical operational guidance on to how to design agriculture-for-developmen...
- 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)
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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 con...
Governments and donors must do more to improve nutrition of women and children
- ( L. Haddad / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2008)
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Current high world food prices serve as a reminder of the vulnerability of large parts of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia to hunger and undernutrition. Good nutrition status for children and adol...
- Tackling child malnourishment in India: an analysis of inter-regional disparities
- ( K. R. G. Nair / Right to Food Campaign, New Delhi , 2007)
- In spite of recent economic growth, India maintains one of the highest proportions of undernourished children in the world, partly owing to the highly uneven nature of its development. This paper prov...
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)
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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 ...
How can women be more actively engaged in solving food crises?
- ( K. Hansen-Kuhn / Southern African Regional Poverty Network , 2007)
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Over the last few decades, food crises have become a distressingly common phenomena. Women are often at the centre of these emergencies, though the disproportionate impact of hunger on women is too...
How can food aid support womens' role in food crises?
- ( ActionAid International , 2007)
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Women are often at the centre of food crises and are disproportionately affected by hunger, yet their central role in providing solutions is often overlooked. This discussion paper lays out some of...
- Findings from a baseline study on Enhanced Commitments to Women
- ( United Nations [UN] World Food Programme , 2007)
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This paper gives the results of a baseline study on the Enhanced Commitments to Women (ECW) programme. It was undertaken in 48 countries to assess how the World Food Programme’s (WFP) 2003-20...
