Empowering women to achieve food security

Women play important roles as producers of food, managers of natural resources, income earners, and caretakers of household food and nutrition security. Giving women the same access to physical and human resources as men could increase agricultural productivity, just as increases in women’s educatio...

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Autor principal: International Food Policy Research Institute
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155797
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description Women play important roles as producers of food, managers of natural resources, income earners, and caretakers of household food and nutrition security. Giving women the same access to physical and human resources as men could increase agricultural productivity, just as increases in women’s education and improvements in women’s status over the past quarter century have contributed to more than half of the reduction in the rate of child malnutrition. In many countries, increasing assets that women control also has a positive impact on the next generation, particularly on education and health.
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spelling CGSpace1557972024-10-25T01:14:01Z Empowering women to achieve food security International Food Policy Research Institute gender women assets human rights food security Women play important roles as producers of food, managers of natural resources, income earners, and caretakers of household food and nutrition security. Giving women the same access to physical and human resources as men could increase agricultural productivity, just as increases in women’s education and improvements in women’s status over the past quarter century have contributed to more than half of the reduction in the rate of child malnutrition. In many countries, increasing assets that women control also has a positive impact on the next generation, particularly on education and health. 2001 2024-10-24T12:42:35Z 2024-10-24T12:42:35Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155797 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute. 2001. Empowering women to achieve food security. 2020 Vision Focus 6
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Empowering women to achieve food security
title Empowering women to achieve food security
title_full Empowering women to achieve food security
title_fullStr Empowering women to achieve food security
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title_short Empowering women to achieve food security
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human rights
food security
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