Food and nutrition security as gendered social practice

Niehof, A.

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“…Traditionally, women fulfill multiple roles in the household, including food preparers, resource managers and caregivers ( 2 ) . However, households in which women are the main income providers are becoming increasingly common, and this contribution allows them to have a greater say in decision making related to household spending, particularly regarding the use of resources and food choices ( 3 ) .…”

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Share of food group expenditure in Mexican households according to the gender of the head of household and size of the locality

Jaen,

Collado-López,

Armenta-Guirado

et al. 2024

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To evaluate differences in the percentage of expenditure on food groups in Mexican households according to the gender of the household head and the size of the locality. Design: Analysis of secondary data from the National Household Income and Expenditure Survey (ENIGH) 2018. We estimated the percentage of expenditure on 15 food groups according to the gender of the head of household and locality size and evaluated the differences using a two-part model approach. Setting: Mexico, 2018. Participants: A nationally representative sample of 74,647 Mexican households. Results: Female-headed households allocated a lower share of expenditure to the purchase of sweetened beverages, and alcoholic beverages, and higher percentages to milk and dairy, fruits, and water. In comparison with metropolitan households, households in rural and urban localities spent more on cereals and tubers, sugar and honey, oil and fat, and less on food away from home. Conclusions: Households allocate different percentages of expenditure to diverse food groups according to the gender of the head of the household and the size of the locality where they are located. Future research should focus on understanding the economic and social disparities related to differences in food expenditure, including the gender perspective.

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Share of food group expenditure in Mexican households according to the gender of the head of household and size of the locality

Jaen,

Collado-López,

Armenta-Guirado

et al. 2024

Public Health Nutr.

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“…They provide about 43% of the agricultural labour force in developing countries and about 50% in parts of Africa (FAO, 2011), with social norms dictating the kind of roles they play. In some communities women have the gendered role of provision of food to households (Niehof, 2016), and thus play a key role in food security attainment. In such communities women are in charge of short-cropping-season food crop production, while men take charge of the more lucrative traditional cash crops which take longer to mature.…”

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Microcredit to women and its contribution to production and household food security

Namayengo

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The alignment of microfinance programs with the context and expectations of recipients is critical to ensuring clients' satisfaction and desired program outcomes. This study sought to investigate the extent to which the objectives and design of the BRAC microfinance program match the expectations, context and characteristics of female borrowers in a rural agrarian setting in Uganda. Quantitative and qualitative survey methods were used to obtain socio-demographic, personality and microenterprise (ME) characteristics of existing and incoming borrowers and to obtain information about the microcredit program. We found that BRAC uses a modified Grameen-like group lending model to provide small, high interest rate production loans and follows a rigorous loan processing and recovery procedure. BRAC clients are mainly impoverished subsistence farmers who derive income from diverse farming and non-farm activities. The major reason to borrow is to meet lump-sum monetary needs usually school fees and for investment in informal small non-farm business activities. Many borrowers use diverse sources of funds to meet repayment obligations. Defaulting on loans is quite low. The stress caused by weekly loan repayment and resolution of lump sum cash needs were identified as reasons for women to stop borrowing. The limited loan amounts, the diversions of loans to nonproduction activities, the stages of the businesses and the weekly recovery program without grace period may limit the contribution of these loans to ME expansion and increase in income.

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“…Apart from nutrition, another factor that is fundamental in the understanding of household food security is gender. Almost universally, in most households women are the caretakers of food security and nutrition in the household, since in most cultural scripts women's reproductive role includes 'feeding the family' (Niehof, 2016). To enact this role, women are expected to engage in practices such as cultivation of food crops, procurement, gathering or exchanging of food, and processing and preparing it.…”

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“…However, they are often constrained by their limited control over the resources and assets they need, such as access to land, agricultural inputs, formal credit facilities, appropriate technologies, and training and extension services. Moreover, the entitlements that facilitate access to assets and resources are often gender-specific, hence require gender to be taken into account in the analysis of household food security (Niehof, 2016).…”

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“…Key informants thought that households headed by women consume more balanced diets than those headed by men, which would be in agreement with women's assigned moral responsibility for 'feeding the family' (cf. Niehof, 2016) that would make women more inclined to allocate their labour to food production and spend more money on food than men. However, the survey results do not reflect this, since the differences between female-and male-headed households are not significant (Table 5.3).…”

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Contextualising the emergence and impacts of the AIDS epidemic on rural livelihoods and household food security in Masaka, Uganda

Tumwine¹

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This chapter introduces the evolution of the study, general introduction and theoretical background to the study, the AID impacts as documented in the literature, problem statement and research questions, conceptual framework, study design and data collection, study area and time frame for the study, description of the methods used, data analysis and outline of the thesis. Evolution of the studyMy interest in the linkages between AIDS, food and nutrition security, and rural development arose in 1998, when I worked as a rural sociologist on the CGIAR system-wide programme on participatory research, gender and stakeholder analysis (PRGA). The International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) Africa and the African Highlands Initiatives World Agro-forestry (ICRAF-AHI) implemented the programme. During this period, I lived in a rural farming community in southwestern Uganda. There, I was often faced with the realities of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality in the communities and I observed that AIDS was a big problem. At the same time, I also realised that there were other problems, such as crop pests and diseases, seasonal droughts and floods, soil degradation, land fragmentation, and many others. All of these had important implications for the welfare and food and nutrition security of households.The problem of AIDS morbidity and mortality in the rural farming communities informed my graduate research work in 2001, which focused on the effects of AIDS on agricultural production and livelihoods (Tumwine, 2004). The major findings of that study suggested that there were growing linkages between poverty, gender inequality, natural resource degradation, and agricultural production, and food, nutrition and livelihood insecurity in the rural farming communities. These constituted a challenge to development policy and practice.As my interest in AIDS and livelihoods developed, I also became increasingly intrigued by the fact that some parts of Uganda faced bigger AIDS-related problems than others. While studies on the impact of AIDS on agriculture and rural livelihoods were accumulating, I felt that such analyses were telling only part of the story, and that the reality was more complex. I felt that the impact of AIDS on rural households, albeit important, needed to be placed in the wider context of the history of the epidemic and the communities it affected. This prompted my interest to look into AIDS more broadly, particularly through exploration of the ecological context. For this thesis, my ambition was to study the complex interactions between historical, political, demographic, socio-economic, cultural and environmental factors in which the AIDS epidemic emerged and spread, and its impacts on household food and

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Food and nutrition security as gendered social practice

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

Share of food group expenditure in Mexican households according to the gender of the head of household and size of the locality

Share of food group expenditure in Mexican households according to the gender of the head of household and size of the locality

Microcredit to women and its contribution to production and household food security

Contextualising the emergence and impacts of the AIDS epidemic on rural livelihoods and household food security in Masaka, Uganda

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