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DISCUSSION No. 130   •   FSN Forum digest No. 1243





Transforming gender relations in agriculture through women’s empowerment: benefits, challenges and trade-offs for improving nutrition outcomes



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Dear Members,

The discussion on Transforming gender relations in agriculture through women’s empowerment: benefits, challenges and trade-offs for improving nutrition outcomes<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/activities/discussions/gender_childcare_nutrition> has taken off with a lively exchange between participants and facilitators.

Below we share the summaries of the contributions received so far. Nitya Rao, lead facilitator, has been very active in keeping the discussion dynamic.

For a full overview of the topic and the questions proposed please refer to the FSN Forum webpage<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/activities/discussions/gender_childcare_nutrition>. You will also find a proceedings document<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/files/130_gender_childcare_nutrition/PROCEEDINGS_gender_childcare_nutrition.docx> compiling all comments received as well as the facilitators' feedback, for your ease of reference.

You are invited to contribute your thoughts and experience, either from South Asia or from other regions; your participation is welcome in Arabic<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/ar/activities/discussions/gender_childcare_nutrition>, Chinese<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/zh/activities/discussions/gender_childcare_nutrition>, French<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/fr/activities/discussions/gender_childcare_nutrition>, Russian<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/ru/activities/discussions/gender_childcare_nutrition> and Spanish<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/activities/discussions/gender_childcare_nutrition> (please check the webpage in any of these languages )

The Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) programme<http://lansasouthasia.org/content/about-us> is engaged in identifying how changes in roles of rural women may improve their status and consequently benefit child nutrition.

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CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED



[icon]Kuruppacharil V. Peter, World Noni Research Foundation, India



KV Peter describes the increasingly prominent role of women in rural communities especially in India and in Kerala in particular, where the Agricultural University has established a centre for gender concerns which conducts research on women empowerment.

Read the contribution <http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7192>

In his second contribution, KV Peter points to some references on women self-help groups.

Read the contribution<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7227>







[icon]Elvis Njabe, Cameroon / Denmark



Elvis questions on how policy makers can tackle the cultural stigma which limits women's access to land rights, education, agro-credit. Indeed, these are strong limiting factors in the way of empowerment of rural women.

Read the contribution<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7195>







[icon]Paul Ridterink, Potomac Technical Advisors, USA



Paul is involved in a project with You Tube vocational videos which capture experiences about women’s roles in agriculture and agribusiness value chains in order to shape policies and interventions to recognize and support women’s contribution to livelihood security. An example of this approach can be found in the ECHO Tropical Video Series (Part 2 of 6) - Grafting Tropical Fruit Trees and Avocados at www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BbSjTVEDCc<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BbSjTVEDCc>

Read the contribution <http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7200>







[icon]Sirajul Islam, BRAC, Bangladesh



Sirajul notes that, despite the fact that women have a relevant role in agriculture, in Bangladesh this role is seldom recognized. Women's engagement in agriculture is often treated as household work and even in paid labour there are huge wage differences between men and women. Societal norms and traditions need to change to ensure nutrition outcomes, which cannot be achieved without agriculture.

Read the contribution <http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7204>







[icon]Joan P. Mencher, The Second Chance Foundation, USA



Joan brings up a very important issue she has been witnessing throughout her long experience in India, especially in Kerala and Tamil Nadu: cultural attitudes towards women being allowed to make use of animal power and implements (such as some of the new ones being devised for agricultural intensification). Once implements are introduced, women lose work in agriculture.

Read the contribution <http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7206>







[icon]Hira Iftikhar, University of Agriculture, Pakistan



Hira informs us that in the University of Agriculture Faisalabad there are programmes for women's empowerment and gender sensitization in which rural women focus on agribusinesses, health and sanitization, education and malnutrition issues.

Read the contribution <http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7202>







[icon]Mebit Kebede, Jhpiego Ethiopia, Ethiopia



Focusing on question # 4 (link between dietary diversity, women’s engagement with agriculture, and access to ecosystem services), Mebit elaborates on how women's empowerment can improve the household dietary diversity score and shares evidence from studies carried out in Ethiopia. Findings show that agriculture programmes empowering women and enabling them to have greater control over asset and other decision-making will likely see improved dietary diversity.

Read the contribution <http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7214>







[icon]Joanna Kane-Potaka, ICRISAT, India



Joanna highlights the huge gender bias in digital technologies; since mobile phones and smartphone affect information on health and nutrition for rural communities, the issue of how to support women in accessing the internet.

Read the contribution <http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7198>







[icon]Bhavani R Vaidyanathan, Swaminathan Research Foundation, India



Bhavani points at the slow uptake of initiatives on gender sensitization and calls for a women farmers entitlement act to support women's access to land.

Read the contribution <http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7218>







[icon]Barnali Chakraborty, Research and Evaluation Division of BRAC and LANSA, Bangladesh - co-facilitator of the discussion



Barnali notes that often women themselves don't value their involvement in agriculture and underestimate their contribution to income and to household nutrition. Therefore it is important to address this aspect and generate context-specific guidelines.

Read the contribution <http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7222>







[icon]Mar Maestre, Institute of Development Studies, UK



Mar shares some insights from her recent research on women's unpaid care work and how it intersects with agriculture or nutrition related programmes or policies through impacts on time, mobility and agency. A key recommendation which will be included in the report (forthcoming) is to combine interventions to directly address unpaid care, with others that support changes in the agricultural value chain to adapt to existing care responsibilities.

Read the contribution <http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7225>











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