Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways

Stevano, Sara; Kadiyala, Suneetha; Johnston, Deborah; Malapit, Hazel J.; Hull, Elizabeth; Kalamatianou, Sofia

doi:10.1080/13545701.2018.1542155

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“…relatively less time spent on agricultural activities. Third, we did not measure work intensity, which has also been highlighted as an important shaper of productive and reproductive labour (Stevano et al, 2018). This could mediate some of study findings, for example,…”

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confidence: 92%

“…and would contribute substantially to the relatively limited evidence base. Given the importance of seasonality in agricultural production, time use data should be collected more than once a year, to better understand how seasonality affects time use (Blackden & Wodon, 2006;Stevano et al, 2018) and associations with maternal and child health and nutrition outcomes. Women's time use also needs to be placed in the context of other household members' time use patterns (Stevano et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Time use data are important for analysing how individuals within a household allocate their time to different activities. It is also important for assessing how time poverty—the burden of competing demands on an individual's time (Hirway, 2010)—may require them to make trade‐offs between so‐called productive (paid) and reproductive (e.g., domestic tasks and childcare) activities that may affect their own or their children's well‐being in different ways (Blackden & Wodon, 2006; Johnston et al, 2015; Stevano et al, 2018). Recent work examining time use as an agriculture‐nutrition pathway in LMICs finds that women play an important role in agriculture, as reflected in their commitments to agricultural activities, whether as farm workers or as farmers (Johnston, Stevano, Malapit, Hull, & Kadiyala, 2018; Stevano et al, 2018), and that women are important actors in the uptake of and response to agricultural interventions (Johnston et al, 2018).…”

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Nutrition‐sensitive agriculture programme impacts on time use and associations with nutrition outcomes

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Success of nutrition-sensitive agriculture programmes targeted to women may be influenced by increased demands on women's and other household members' time and by time-related trade-offs to accommodate programme participation. However, evidence of how such programmes impact time use and whether changes in timerelated demands negatively influence maternal or child health and nutrition outcomes is limited. This paper examines the impact of Helen Keller International's Enhanced Homestead Food Production programme in Burkina Faso (2010-2012) on women's and men's time use and associations between changes in women's time use and maternal and child health and nutrition outcomes. We used quantitative data from a cluster-randomized controlled trial (baseline 2010, endline 2012) and qualitative data from two rounds of process evaluation (2011, 2012). Two-stage analyses were used to first assess programme impacts on women's and men's time use using differencein-difference impact estimates and second to evaluate whether programme impacts on women's time use were associated with changes in women's and children's health and nutrition outcomes. Programme impacts were considered significant if corrected P < 0.01, and associations were considered significant if p < 0.05 and p < 0.01. Qualitative data were analysed through manual coding and by calculating the means and standard deviations for the time spent by women and men on activities in intervention and control groups. Findings show that the programme significantly increased the amount of time women spent on agriculture in the intervention compared to the control group, but this was not associated with changes in maternal or child health or nutrition outcomes. Process evaluation data supported these findings. K E Y W O R D S agriculture, Burkina Faso, children, nutrition, time use, women's health 1 | INTRODUCTION There is a growing interest in understanding how nutrition-sensitive agriculture programmes in lower-and middle-income countries (LMICs) affect maternal and child health and nutrition outcomes. These programmes are posited to reduce maternal and child undernutrition through multiple pathways, such as food intake, income, price dynamics and women's participation in agriculture (Ruel & Alderman, 2013; Ruel,

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“…Unless alternative fuels are available, another trade-off, deforestation and a potential decline in ecosystem services provided by the forest will also have gender-differentiated effects. Stevano et al (2018) note that trade-offs can be complex and unpredictable and depend on a range of factors. For example, women's employment in agriculture may not always reduce time for childcare, especially when there are other people in the home who take on this responsibility (Kadiyala et al 2014, cited in Stevano et al 2018.…”

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Gendered opportunities for improving soil health: A conceptual framework to help set the research agenda

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established in 1975, provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. IFPRI's strategic research aims to foster a climate-resilient and sustainable food supply; promote healthy diets and nutrition for all; build inclusive and efficient markets, trade systems, and food industries; transform agricultural and rural economies; and strengthen institutions and governance. Gender is integrated in all the Institute's work. Partnerships, communications, capacity strengthening, and data and knowledge management are essential components to translate IFPRI's research from action to impact. The Institute's regional and country programs play a critical role in responding to demand for food policy research and in delivering holistic support for country-led development. IFPRI collaborates with partners around the world.

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“…This literature also expresses concerns about the impacts of women's workload and time constraints on their ability to care for children and attain diverse diets (Johnston, et al, 2018, Stevano, et al, 2019.…”

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Agriculture and undernutrition through the lens of economics

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Masters²

2019

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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), established in 1975, provides researchbased policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. IFPRI's strategic research aims to foster a climate-resilient and sustainable food supply; promote healthy diets and nutrition for all; build inclusive and efficient markets, trade systems, and food industries; transform agricultural and rural economies; and strengthen institutions and governance. Gender is integrated in all the Institute's work. Partnerships, communications, capacity strengthening, and data and knowledge management are essential components to translate IFPRI's research from action to impact. The Institute's regional and country programs play a critical role in responding to demand for food policy research and in delivering holistic support for country-led development. IFPRI collaborates with partners around the world. AbstractAgricultural development has historically focused on poverty reduction and food security but is now increasingly asked to help improve nutrition. Despite this strengthened nutritional mandate, agricultural policies and programs have struggled to develop effective, scalable and cost-effective approaches for reducing undernutrition. This study was therefore undertaken to assess more the more strategic issue of how to re-design agricultural development strategies for greater nutritional impact. To do so we review the literature on agriculture-nutrition linkages through an economic lens, focusing on systemic agriculture-nutrition linkages that go beyond the much-explored question of how a farm family's agricultural activities affect their own household members' food consumption or nutrition outcomes. To that end we structured this review around three types of linkages between agriculture and nutrition: (i) agricultural income effects (including income stability); (ii) relative food price determination (including the shadow prices involved in consuming one's own production); and (iii) agricultural livelihood characteristics (encompassing the many neglected dimensions of agricultural activities and rural livelihoods that influence nutrition and health). For each of these literatures we reflect upon relevant economic theory, methodological challenges, and key empirical evidence. We conclude with a brief discussion of the implications of these findings for developing more nutrition-sensitive agricultural development strategies.

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Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways

Cited by 21 publications

References 61 publications

Nutrition‐sensitive agriculture programme impacts on time use and associations with nutrition outcomes

Nutrition‐sensitive agriculture programme impacts on time use and associations with nutrition outcomes

Gendered opportunities for improving soil health: A conceptual framework to help set the research agenda

Agriculture and undernutrition through the lens of economics

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