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This is Richard Yeboah from Ghana, again. 

There is a gender dimension to food and nutrition security (FNS) especially in the developing countries. The small farms are normally run by poor households where mostly men are heads. The men are the owners of the farm and the wives and children are workers on the farm. When the crop is harvested it is, in most cases, the man who decides on the distribution as to what to sell, keep for food etc. On a daily basis, or periodically, the women are supplied with the grain for preparation to feed the home. 

The nutrition of the food served on the table is dependent on what the man provides. The women in order to provide a balanced diet cultivate vegetables around the borders of the farm or on some small part of the farm to supplement. In some cases, the women produce more than they could consume so sell some to buy other ingredients.

The resourcefulness and knowledge of the wife determines the quality of food provided for the household. The men do not in many cases provide enough cash for protein in the form of meat, fish etc. These are of concern to the contribution of small farms to FNS.

It is therefore important that a gender dimension is included in the study and research of small farms and FNS not only the production.

Richard W. Nartey Yeboah
Department of Agribusiness Management and Finance 
Faculty of Agribusiness and Communication Sciences
University for Development Studies
Tamale, 
Ghana
+233-27789282
E-mail: ryeboah(at)uds.edu.gh ; narteyrwn(at)hotmail.com

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