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DISCUSSION No. 130   •   FSN Forum digest No. 1245

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

until 15 July 2016

 

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Dear Members,

Please find below the summaries of latest contributions to the discussion on Transforming gender relations in agriculture through women’s empowerment: benefits, challenges and trade-offs for improving nutrition outcomes.

While the focus of the LANSA Research Programme is South Asia, we are looking for experiences and good practices from all regions on how improve women's status to benefit nutrition, and child nutrition in particular.

For a full overview of the discussion including the facilitator's feedback please refer to the FSN Forum webpage.

Comments are welcome in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish (please check the webpage in any of these languages).

Looking forward to further inputs!

Your FSN Forum team

 

 

CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED

iconHira Iftikhar, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan

Hira points out the link between malnutrition in women and potential economic losses. It is of utmost importance to guarantee proper female nutrition particularly during pregnancy and lactation because any such discrepancies can “create ripple effects that stretch through generations”.

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iconRamani Wijesinha-Bettoni, FAO, Italy

Ramani puts at our disposal two FAO sources that mainly respond to question 2: “Are there experiences/strategies that can help address the issue of women’s time?". She also highlighted that projects need to target families with young children (which are not always automatically included).

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iconAkmal Nazir, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Akmal believes that the focus of the discusion should be on the family and not on women specifically because it is the whole family that is neglected and needs uplifting. He believes that education is key and, should the government launch proper education campaigns for all, the newly educated group would automatically empower and respect women.

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iconMohammad Jafar Emal, IFAD/RMLSP/MAIL, Afghanistan

Mohammad shares some of his research pertaining to creating other sources of income through backyard poultry raising. This project offered rural women the possibility of developing an extra source of income.

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iconAmna Akhtar, Collective for Social Science Research, Pakistan

Amna shares that, given their role as care-givers and their generally stronger inclination towards pro-nutrition household decisions, acknowledging women’s importance in agricultural and household work, and giving them the means to gain more decision-making authority is a big step towards major food security outcomes.

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iconPaul Rigterink, Potomac Technical Advisors, United States of America

Paul shares with us a project focused on giving women the chance to have their own economic endeavors which would allow them to gain “control of their lives because they will have much more control of the purse strings of their family”.

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