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Women: the key to food security

This brief examines the key roles that women play in ensuring food security and makes three recommendations of ways to strengthen the food security through policies and programs that enhance women's abilities and resources to fulfill their roles.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Quisumbing, Agnes R., Brown, Lynn R., Feldstein, Hilary Sims, Haddad, Lawrence J., Peña, Christine
Format:	Brief
Language:	Inglés
Published:	International Food Policy Research Institute 2000
Subjects:	household surveys food security developing countries food policies natural resources management assets women education gender health nutrition malnutrition food aid household budget property rights agricultural technology agricultural growth food supply
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156788

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Summary:	This brief examines the key roles that women play in ensuring food security and makes three recommendations of ways to strengthen the food security through policies and programs that enhance women's abilities and resources to fulfill their roles.