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Gender, Agriculture, and Nutrition Linkages for Sustainable Food Security

Learn how addressing gender disparities in agriculture can improve nutrition outcomes, reduce poverty, and enhance food security. Explore key linkages between gender roles, nutrition, and agricultural practices to empower women and improve household food production.

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Gender, Agriculture, and Nutrition Linkages for Sustainable Food Security

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  1. Gender, Agriculture, and Nutrition Linkages TOPS Food Security Meeting Maputo September 2011

  2. Nutrition and GDP $ $ Nutrition and food consumption issues are critical to sustainably reduce poverty and decrease maternal and child mortality. Up to 3% GDP LOSSES due to undernutrition World Bank 2006 2

  3. What Supports Child Nutrition? Access to water/ sanitation/hygiene and basic health services Access to food Improvedmaternal and child-care practices

  4. AgricultureandNutrition Pathways Sold at market Health Care Non-food cash crops Income Nutritional status Livestock, fish, non- timber forest products Agricultural processing Food Meal preparation Dietary Intake Food crops Human Capital Kept for household Assets &Resources International Center for Research on Women

  5. NUTRITION-SENSITIVE AGRICULTURE REACH, Sierra Leone

  6. PRINCIPLES • Agriculture affects nutrition outcomes indirectlyIt works through effects on the underlying causes of undernutrition: access to food and food production, health and care, and most directly through the effects of income and prices on household food security • Nutrition is both an input for and an outcome of agricultural productivity • The appropriate actions will be identified through an analysis of determinants of food insecurity/ undernutrition • Plan multisectorally and implement sectorally

  7. What is USAID doing to link Agriculture and Nutrition? Feed the Future Global Health Initiative Nutrition Agriculture Programs Health Services Improved nutrition-related behaviors Improved access to diverse and quality foods Improved utilization of maternal and child health and nutrition services including hygiene 7

  8. Key Linkages: Gender, Nutrition, and Agriculture Focus on women because of their role as care givers, producers, processors of food Nutrition and health protocols: Customs detrimental to child health and development Gender approach: involving men

  9. Empowerment of women with knowledge and skills to prevent or reverse malnutrition, capacity to care for their children, access to technical resources to improve food production and/or food processing.

  10. Increase year-round supply of nutrient rich foods • Address gaps in sector-specific efforts, such as production or income gains that fail to translate into improved nutritional status. • Reduce women’s resource constraints by improving their access to productive technologies such as seeds and extension services; • Identify characteristics of different crop varieties that may be preferred more by men or women • Provide extension support to enhance uptake of the preferred varieties • Focus on developing technologies that increase productivity in parts of the food chain that fall largely within women’s domain

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