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From women's empowerment to food security: revisiting global discourses through a cross-country analysis

Global discourses have advocated women's empowerment as a means to enhance food security. Our objective was to critically review the causal linkages between women's empowerment and food availability and access. We relied on mixed methods and a cross-country analysis, using household survey data from...

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Main Authors: Clement, Floriane, Buisson, Marie-Charlotte, Leder, Stephanie, Balasubramanya, Soumya, Saikia, Panchali, Bastakoti, Ram C., Karki, Emma, van Koppen, Barbara
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Elsevier 2019
Subjects:
food security
gender
women farmers
empowerment
food supply
food access
food shortages
malnutrition
indicators
household consumption
socioeconomic environment
social structure
decision making
strategies
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103717
Summary:Global discourses have advocated women's empowerment as a means to enhance food security. Our objective was to critically review the causal linkages between women's empowerment and food availability and access. We relied on mixed methods and a cross-country analysis, using household survey data from Bangladesh, Nepal and Tajikistan and qualitative data from Nepal. The quantitative analysis highlights the diversity of patterns linking empowerment and food security indicators and the roles socio-economic determinants play in shaping these patterns across countries. The qualitative analysis further stresses the need for a truly intersectional approach in food security programmes that supports challenging the structural barriers that keep marginalised men and women food insecure. Lastly, our findings call for informing standardised measures of empowerment with an assessment of local meanings and values.

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