Enhancing Women's Contributions to Improving Family Food Consumption and Nutrition

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Correlates and inequality of underweight and overweight among women of reproductive age: Evidence from the 2016 Nepal Demographic Health Survey

“…Our study shows that wealth is clearly linked with the distribution of under- and over-weight, and thus poverty reduction interventions to help women to have their own income and increase the production and consumption of green vegetables and fruits (e.g. microfinance, kitchen gardening, and small businesses) could have some promising results [58–60]. At the community level, women’s group initiatives which have been evidenced to improve nutrition knowledge and maternal and neonatal health [61,62] could be an important strategy to promote physical activity and respond to the double burden of nutritional problems in both rural and urban areas.…”

Improving Nutrition as a Development Priority: Addressing Undernutrition in National Policy Processes in Sub-Saharan Africa

“…The importance of gender inequalities in contributing to problems of human development is somewhat more apparent in considering undernutrition than for many other such problems. Where policies and programs remove constraints that limit the respective contributions of men and women to improving nutrition, aggregate nutritional status will improve (Kurz and Johnson-Welch 2001). For instrumental reasons alone -that is, for the technical efficiencies that can be realized-gender analysis should be a necessary component in the design of public policy to reduce levels of undernutrition.…”

Composition of Household Income and Child Nutrition Outcomes Evidence from Uganda

“…A large collection of microeconomic studies attempting to determine the income links to nutrition through specific mechanisms provide mixed and often conflicting results. The investigated mechanisms include (i) commercialization (reviewed by DeWalt, 1993 , Kennedy et al, 1992 , Von Braun and Kennedy, 1994 ), (ii) gender dynamics (reviewed by Kurz and Johnson-Welch, 2007 , Peña et al, 1996 , Quisumbing et al, 1995 , Quisumbing and Maluccio, 2000 ), and (iii) nutrition-sensitive production and education interventions (reviewed by Berti et al, 2004 , Gillespie and Mason, 1994 , Leroy and Frongillo, 2007 , Masset et al, 2011 2 ; Ruel, 2001 , Soleri et al, 1991 ). While some differences could be due to context-specific dynamics, numerous reviews in recent years express concerns regarding (i) the validity of the empirical methods used for impact estimation, and (ii) the inconsistency in the types of data used across studies which often lack information on income and have information on only consumption or anthropometry but not both ( Arimond et al, 2011 , Leroy et al, 2008 , World Bank, 2007 ).…”