Visthar-Session 3: Gender and Food Security
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Gender and food security
Ranjani.K.Murthy and Mercy Kappen
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Objectives
• To understand gender issues in food security with a focus on food production, food access, and food utilisation
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Social relations and institutions responsible for Nagamma’s and her family’s food insecurity
• Market• Commu-nity
• Family• State
• Inter-state org.
Caste Class
GenderMarital status
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Gender adverse coping mechanisms
• Pulling daughter out of school
• Selling cow normally managed by women
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Summing up
• Different social relations and institutions are responsible for food insecurity and gender issues in food insecurity
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Gender issues in food production
Land
Decisions
Credit
Irrigation
cooperatives
Men
Production
Small livestock
Small cash crops
Women
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Gender issues in food access
Sphere Who is responsible
Men Women
Decision making on how much to keep for consumption
_/ *
Access to income to buy grains
More Less
Purchase of grains Large Small
Control over ration card MHH more FHH less
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Gender issues in food utilization
Post harvest
processing
fuel
water
Cooking
Eat less, last
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Gender issues in food utilization
Reproductive work
Girls Pulled out
Lesser access to MDMS
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Trends
• In the last ten years, food security situation has become worse
• Affecting women and girls more than men and boys
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Arguments for addressing gender and food security
Efficiency
Effectiveness
Equity