Rethinking how gender matters for food security.

In agricultural research, gender has been recognised as a critical issue that needs to be addressed to enhance household food security. However, prioritising gender is often taken to signify a focus on women, with most attention given to women’s lack of access to land and resources. Consequently, th...

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Main Authors: Kawarazuka, Nozomi, Locke, C., Seeley, J.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100352
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Locke, C.
Seeley, J.
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description In agricultural research, gender has been recognised as a critical issue that needs to be addressed to enhance household food security. However, prioritising gender is often taken to signify a focus on women, with most attention given to women’s lack of access to land and resources. Consequently, the complex processes of how gender influences household food security are relatively poorly understood. In contrast, ethnographic evidence shows that both women’s and men’s strategies for household food security are highly gendered and that women’s, as well as men’s, approaches to coping with insecure lives are far more diverse than simply ensuring direct access to economic resources. With reference to this established evidence, we highlight how women and men negotiate for food security, and consider the implications for agricultural research.
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spelling CGSpace1003522025-11-06T14:06:58Z Rethinking how gender matters for food security. Kawarazuka, Nozomi Locke, C. Seeley, J. gender food security agricultural research In agricultural research, gender has been recognised as a critical issue that needs to be addressed to enhance household food security. However, prioritising gender is often taken to signify a focus on women, with most attention given to women’s lack of access to land and resources. Consequently, the complex processes of how gender influences household food security are relatively poorly understood. In contrast, ethnographic evidence shows that both women’s and men’s strategies for household food security are highly gendered and that women’s, as well as men’s, approaches to coping with insecure lives are far more diverse than simply ensuring direct access to economic resources. With reference to this established evidence, we highlight how women and men negotiate for food security, and consider the implications for agricultural research. 2017 2019-03-19T20:48:29Z 2019-03-19T20:48:29Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100352 en Open Access application/pdf Kawarazuka, N.; Locke, C.; Seeley, J. 2017. Rethinking how gender matters for food security. Agriculture for Development. ISSN 1759-0612. 32. 34-37.
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