Increasing the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa
What can be done to increase the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa? This brief advocates a two-pronged approach. First, eradicate discrimination against women, and second, promote catch-up by implementing more active measures in key areas such as control over...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2004
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| author | Quisumbing, Agnes R. Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Smith, Lisa C. |
| author_browse | Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Quisumbing, Agnes R. Smith, Lisa C. |
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| description | What can be done to increase the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa? This brief advocates a two-pronged approach. First, eradicate discrimination against women, and second, promote catch-up by implementing more active measures in key areas such as control over land, water, and other assets, and investment in education, health, child care, and other services for women. Since the set of actions that are most appropriate in a given situation will be context specific, we present examples of approaches that have worked in Sub-Saharan Africa." -- from Text |
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| spelling | CGSpace1567312025-01-10T06:30:09Z Increasing the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa Quisumbing, Agnes R. Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Smith, Lisa C. nutrition property rights child care women gender education imports food safety quality food consumption income What can be done to increase the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa? This brief advocates a two-pronged approach. First, eradicate discrimination against women, and second, promote catch-up by implementing more active measures in key areas such as control over land, water, and other assets, and investment in education, health, child care, and other services for women. Since the set of actions that are most appropriate in a given situation will be context specific, we present examples of approaches that have worked in Sub-Saharan Africa." -- from Text 2004 2024-10-24T12:45:17Z 2024-10-24T12:45:17Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156731 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Smith, Lisa C. 2004. Increasing the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa. 2020 Africa Conference Brief; Issue brief. 4; 20. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156731 |
| spellingShingle | nutrition property rights child care women gender education imports food safety quality food consumption income Quisumbing, Agnes R. Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Smith, Lisa C. Increasing the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa |
| title | Increasing the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa |
| title_full | Increasing the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa |
| title_fullStr | Increasing the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Increasing the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa |
| title_short | Increasing the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa |
| title_sort | increasing the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in africa |
| topic | nutrition property rights child care women gender education imports food safety quality food consumption income |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156731 |
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