Gender and nutrition

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Promoting women's rights and HIV awareness is a crucial element when developing food security programmes: ( C Hill / Canadian International Development Agency , 2005); This toolkit from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) provides guidelines for integrating HIV and gender equality into the development and implementation of agricultural and food secu...
Successful leadership contributes to reducing hunger: ( C. Johnson-Welch; K. MacQuarrie; S. Bunch / International Center for Research on Women, USA , 2005); This paper reviews the aspects and outcomes of the Agriculture- Nutrition Advantage project implemented in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, and the United States. The aim of the project was ...
A cradle-to-grave approach to women’s nutrition: training aid for trainers: ( N. Ntombela; M. Stone-Jimenez; J. Ross; L. Martin / LINKAGES Project , 2005); Recommended reading; Produced by the Linkages Project, this training module is intended to provide instructors with the basic theory to train health workers on women’s nutrition, with a focus on the complete life cycle. I...
Reducing hunger through gender-informed agriculture: ( Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project , 2004); This website offers updates on the projects and programmes being conducted by the Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage project. Projects summarised include:reducing hunger through gender-informed a...
Pregnant and nursing women at high risk of malnutrition given traditional food allocation patterns in Ethiopia: ( A. Kimhi / Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Hebrew University, Israel , 2004); This paper examines the patterns of food allocation within Ethiopian households, with a particular focus on gender differences and the sources of these differences. The author proposes that different ...
Interventions on household food security and gender, Uganda: ( International Center for Research on Women, USA , 2003); Recommended reading; This paper from the International Center for Research on Women provides information on the implementation of a collaborative project to improve household food security in rural Ugandan communities aff...
Child care programme assists vulnerable urban households in Guatemala: ( M. Ruel; B. Brière; K. Hallman; A. Quisumbing; N. Coj / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2002); This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by provi...
Impact of food aid on different household members in Ethiopia: ( A.R. Quisumbing / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2003); This paper uses a unique panel data set from Ethiopia to examine the determinants of participation in and receipts of food aid through free distribution (FD) and food-for-work (FFW). It rejects the un...
Underweight and stunting: wake-up call for nutritionists in South Asia: ( Kavita Sethuraman / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2002); Moderate malnutrition is highly prevalent in South Asia – 53 per cent of children under five years old in India were underweight in 1993. Why have decades of child nutrition programmes failed to reduc...
Determinants of child health in rural Ethiopia: nutrition, economics, family structure and genetics: ( B. Kebede / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford , 2003); This paper examines the determinants of child health in rural Ethiopia for the period 1994-97 using height-for-age z-scores as measures of long-term health.
The panel nature of the data helps to con...