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DISCUSSION No. 130   •   FSN Forum digest No. 1250





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



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Dear Members,

Please find below the latest contributions 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>.

The facilitators of the discussion posted feedback on the comments received. Indeed, reflections on how stronger women agency can improve nutritional outcomes in rural households and for children brought up several related issues: how can we tackle deeply-rooted gender relations and roles, awareness raising and involvement of men and other members of the household, changing roles in influencing nutrition behaviours, ways in which seasonality affects rural women.

The discussion will stay open over the next weekend and the facilitators will wrap it up on Monday.

Please refer to the FSN Forum webpage<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/activities/discussions/gender_childcare_nutrition> for a full overview of this lively exchange. We also remind you that comments are welcome in English<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/activities/discussions/gender_childcare_nutrition>, 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>.

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CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED



[icon]Shirin Afroz, Helen Keller International, Bangladesh



Shirin brings up the successes of the Helen Keller Institute’s Nurturing Connections curriculum which serves a way to promote community level fora to discuss nutrition and gender related problems. Since its introduction, the curriculum has helped people develop skills in communication, assertiveness, and problem solving as well improving confidence and promoting positive gender outcomes.

Read the contribution<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7325>







[icon]Rohit Parasasr, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, India



Rohit backs Sirajul’s comments about the importance of raising awareness and sensitising men. Men often do not partake in these activities maybe because they deem them unproductive or non-income generating. This behaviour, however, is detrimental and should be addressed. Rohit therefore extends the discussion asking whether there are any policies/initiatives that address this problem of gender sensitisation for better nutritional outcomes.

Read the contribution<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7324>







[icon]Eng Shah Wali "Allokozai", Rural Rehabilitation Association for Afghanistan (NPO/RRAA), Afghanistan



Eng mentions that we should forget the importance of livestock when it comes to women’s empowerment and agricultural systems. In Afghanistan, women are traditionally responsible for livestock and therefore are those most knowledgeable of these practices. Capacity building should address and increase this knowledge while finding ways to bring them to market which will both benefit them and the country’s economy.

Read the contribution<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7323>







[icon]Priya Rampal, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, India



In her own words, Priya stresses that “Empowering the women is the only way forward to tackling the inter-generational aspect of malnutrition” and briefly explains why.

Read the contribution <http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7322>







[icon]Amin Uddin, Helen Keller International, Bangladesh



Amin points out that homestead gardening has been a very fruitful approach for rural development. However, because of the changing climate, new strategies have to be devised to combat associated problems like increased soil salinity. Despite difficulties in implementing proper educational programmes, once these were in place, significant reduction in inadequate diets was observed.

Read the contribution<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7321>







[icon]Guo Cheng, Sichuan University, China



Guo praises the great strides China has made to reduce hunger in the country consequently achieving their MDG and improving child nutrition by reducing stunting and underweight by 70% in 20 years. She share some of the programmes that allowed for this success but also points out that other problems are arising and new ways have to be devised to counter them, most notably through the, previously neglected, importance of fathers and grandparents on child nutrition.

Read the contribution<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7320>







[icon]Bibhu Santosh Bhera, Ouat Bhubaneswar, India



Bibhu shares a paper of his authoring on communication system among the farmers and farm women in the Keonjhar district of Odisha comparing them among men and women.

Read the contribution <http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7317>







[icon]Md. Sirajul Islam, BRAC, Bangladesh



Sirajul presents a caveat to certain approaches for female empowerment. Seeing that empowerment is an important issue most or all development initiatives, women might actually be overburdened in increased participation. In Bangladesh, women’s role in agriculture is limited to post-harvest activities and he believes that empowerment.

Read the contribution<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7311>

In his earlier contribution, he shares the results from a study about floating gardens as means of dealing with agricultural difficulties related to seasonality. In Bangladesh, during monsoon season when large portions of land are submerged, a technique was developed for growing hydrophilic plants on rafts which promoted year round produce regardless of weather patterns.

Read the earlier contribution <http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7305>







[icon]Mylene Rodríguez Leyton, Universidad Metropolitana de Barranquilla, Colombia



Mylene believes that policy recognition is crucial for empowerment because of the visibility and recognition it gives to the issues at hand. She also shares with us an overview of a study about women’s roles in rural Colombia. Due to religious and cultural norms, women play a submissive role which can be detrimental to family nutrition. A silver lining though, is that, despite this resistance, women are still able to participate in collective actions and community initiatives.

Read the contribution<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7310>







[icon]Tiphaine Bueke, FAO, Democratic Republic of Congo



As a means of promoting child and adult nutrition as well as education for all and economic empowerment, Tiphaine shares a project she has been working on with FAO which involves school gardens. This initiative not only helps young children at school but also serves as a gateway to allow for better nutrition at home and an extra source of income for communities. Added to that is a participative approach for gender awareness and female empowerment, notably through radio programmes.

Read the contribution <http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7309>







[icon]Muhammad Haseeb, PLAN International, Pakistan



Muhammad brings up South Asian women’s important role in livestock management. He believes that empowering the most at risk through education and the provision of productive assets is achievable and would be self-sustaining both nutritionally and as an income generating source. The only challenge is getting men on board to conduct gender sensitive training.

Read the contribution<http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7308>







[icon]Muqueem Shah Miakheel, Ministry of Public Health, Afghanistan



Muqeem agrees that, to allow for the development of rural Afghan women, women have to be integrated and supported in the economic mainstream through education, employment and women’s rights.

Read the contribution <http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/7306>











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