Gender and Food Security

Project name/title

Gender and Food Security

Year:

2006

Theme:

Poverty, Inequality and Well-being

Abstract:

UNU-WIDER’s recent project ‘Hunger and Food Security’ exerted a strong attraction for academia, international organizations (FAO, WFP, and UNCTAD), civil society organizations, and the media. The first project meeting, held in Jaipur in March 2005, concluded that the gender dimension of food security demands special attention. The “Gender and Food Security” project will examine the effect of the status of women relative to men on various aspects of food-security.

Keywords:

Hunger, women, children, health, starvation, poverty, Asia, Africa, agriculture, wages, literacy, child-labor

Director:

• Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis
  Senior Research Fellow

Assistant:

• Janis Vehmaan-Kreula
  Project Assistant

Project Meetings

• 17 May 2007 Project meeting on Gender and Food Security

Workshops

• 29 January 2008 Special WIDER session on Food Security at the Annual Meeting of the Global Development Network

Publications:

• Differences in Food Insecurity between Girls and Boys: Evidence from Zimbabwe
• Does Women’s Status Matter for Food Security
• Domestic Violence Against Women
• Empowering Women Through Livelihoods Orientated Agricultural Service Provision
• Forest Management, Gender, and Food Security of the Rural Poor in Africa
• Gender Differentiation in the Analysis of Alternative Farm Mechanization Choices on Small Farms in Kenya
• Household Access to Microcredit and Children’s Food Security in Rural Malawi
• Is the Nutritional Status of Males and Females Equally Affected by Economic Growth
• Role of Women’s Empowerment and Domestic Violence in Child Growth and Undernutrition in a Tribal and Rural Community in South India
• Role of the Household and Community in Determining Child Health
• Women’s Status and Child Labour in Nepal
• Women’s Status and Children’s Food Security in Nepal