Gender, agriculture and food security
Latest Documents
- 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 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 context of agriculture and natural reso...
- 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, and climate analyses to document ...
- Rural women and food security in Asia and the Pacific: Prospects and paradoxes
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
- In many Asian and Pacific countries, substantial gender equality gains have been made in urban areas in education, health and employment, yet rural women lag behind. Moreover, rural women’s work is multifaceted and demanding bot...
- Promoting Gender Equitable Opportunities in Agricultural Value Chains: A Handbook
- US Agency for International Development, 2009
- Gender issues fundamentally shape the production, distribution, and consumption within an economy but have often been overlooked in value chain development. A value chain describes the full sequence of activities required to bring a p...
- Agriculture, trade negotiations and gender
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006
- Women and men in developing countries have different roles in agriculture, and different access to and use of productive resources, therefore the effects of trade liberalisation have had diverse impacts on both, often with women losin...
- What are “women's crops”, and why?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
- This online article highlights how gender inequalities can limit women to certain choices which prevent them from developing profitable farming activities. For example, many women farmers tend to grow lower-value subsistence crops whe...
- Empowering Women through Livelihoods Orientated Agricultural Service Provision: A Consideration of Evidence from Southern Africa
- United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2008
- This paper considers the impact of livelihoods-oriented agricultural service provision for smallholder farmers on gender relationships and food security. The author suggests that the democratisation and liberalisation of agricultural ...
- Food Security and Gender Fact Sheet
- USA Agency for International Development, 2009
- This two-page brief summarises the key gender and food security issues common to most developing regions. It opens by stating that women are responsible for half of the world’s food production, and in most developing countries t...
- Women, food security and agriculture in a global market place
- R. Mehra; M. Hill Rojas / International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2008
- This paper reviews current thinking and practice on increasing agricultural productivity for women farmers within commercial agriculture. It maps out opportunities and barriers for women and concludes by providing recommendations for ...
