Generating food security in the year 2020: women as producers, gatekeepers, and shock absorbers
Meeting world food needs in the year 2020 will depend even more than it does now on the capabilities and resources of women. Women are responsible for generating food security for their families in many developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Women not only process, purchase, and p...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
1995
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| author | Brown, Lynn R. Feldstein, Hilary Sims Haddad, Lawrence J. Peña, Christine Quisumbing, Agnes R. |
| author_browse | Brown, Lynn R. Feldstein, Hilary Sims Haddad, Lawrence J. Peña, Christine Quisumbing, Agnes R. |
| author_facet | Brown, Lynn R. Feldstein, Hilary Sims Haddad, Lawrence J. Peña, Christine Quisumbing, Agnes R. |
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| description | Meeting world food needs in the year 2020 will depend even more than it does now on the capabilities and resources of women. Women are responsible for generating food security for their families in many developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Women not only process, purchase, and prepare food, but they also play a significant role in national agricultural production, producing both food and cash crops. Population growth, urbanization, and the limited potential for increasing production through the expansion of cultivated area imply that, for food needs to be met in the future, yields will have to increase. Agricultural research continues to develop new varieties with higher yields and increased tolerance to unfavorable environmental conditions, but an untapped source of productivity gains could lie in addressing gender disparities in agriculture. This brief examines the key roles that women play in maintaining the three pillars of food security--food production, food access, and food utilization--and it looks at how strengthening these pillars through policies that enhance women's abilities and resources provides a solution to meeting world food needs in the year 2020. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1570462025-01-10T06:35:40Z Generating food security in the year 2020: women as producers, gatekeepers, and shock absorbers Brown, Lynn R. Feldstein, Hilary Sims Haddad, Lawrence J. Peña, Christine Quisumbing, Agnes R. gender property rights household budget child care food security Meeting world food needs in the year 2020 will depend even more than it does now on the capabilities and resources of women. Women are responsible for generating food security for their families in many developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Women not only process, purchase, and prepare food, but they also play a significant role in national agricultural production, producing both food and cash crops. Population growth, urbanization, and the limited potential for increasing production through the expansion of cultivated area imply that, for food needs to be met in the future, yields will have to increase. Agricultural research continues to develop new varieties with higher yields and increased tolerance to unfavorable environmental conditions, but an untapped source of productivity gains could lie in addressing gender disparities in agriculture. This brief examines the key roles that women play in maintaining the three pillars of food security--food production, food access, and food utilization--and it looks at how strengthening these pillars through policies that enhance women's abilities and resources provides a solution to meeting world food needs in the year 2020. 1995 2024-10-24T12:46:57Z 2024-10-24T12:46:57Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157046 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Brown, Lynn R.; Feldstein, Hilary Sims; Haddad, Lawrence James; Peña, Christine; Quisumbing, Agnes R. 1995. Generating food security in the year 2020: women as producers, gatekeepers, and shock absorbers. 2020 Policy Brief 17. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157046 |
| spellingShingle | gender property rights household budget child care food security Brown, Lynn R. Feldstein, Hilary Sims Haddad, Lawrence J. Peña, Christine Quisumbing, Agnes R. Generating food security in the year 2020: women as producers, gatekeepers, and shock absorbers |
| title | Generating food security in the year 2020: women as producers, gatekeepers, and shock absorbers |
| title_full | Generating food security in the year 2020: women as producers, gatekeepers, and shock absorbers |
| title_fullStr | Generating food security in the year 2020: women as producers, gatekeepers, and shock absorbers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Generating food security in the year 2020: women as producers, gatekeepers, and shock absorbers |
| title_short | Generating food security in the year 2020: women as producers, gatekeepers, and shock absorbers |
| title_sort | generating food security in the year 2020 women as producers gatekeepers and shock absorbers |
| topic | gender property rights household budget child care food security |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157046 |
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