Download or read book Women and Food Security in Kenya written by Nadine R. Horenstein and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transforming Gender and Food Security in the Global South written by Jemimah Njuki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on studies from Africa, Asia and South America, this book provides empirical evidence and conceptual explorations of the gendered dimensions of food security. It investigates how food security and gender inequity are conceptualized within interventions, assesses the impacts and outcomes of gender-responsive programs on food security and gender equity and addresses diverse approaches to gender research and practice that range from descriptive and analytical to strategic and transformative. The chapters draw on diverse theoretical perspectives, including transformative learning, feminist theory, deliberative democracy and technology adoption. As a result, they add important conceptual and empirical material to a growing literature on the challenges of gender equity in agricultural production. A unique feature of this book is the integration of both analytic and transformative approaches to understanding gender and food security. The analytic material shows how food security interventions enable women and men to meet the long-term nutritional needs of their households, and to enhance their economic position. The transformative chapters also document efforts to build durable and equitable relationships between men and women, addressing underlying social, cultural and economic causes of gender inequality. Taken together, these combined approaches enable women and men to reflect on gendered divisions of labor and resources related to food, and to reshape these divisions in ways which benefit families and communities. Co-published with the International Development Research Centre.

Download or read book Food Security Gender and Resilience written by Leigh Brownhill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the integration of gender analysis into resilience thinking, this book shares field-based research insights from a collaborative, integrated project aimed at improving food security in subsistence and smallholder agricultural systems. The scope of the book is both local and multi-scalar. The gendered resilience framework, illustrated here with detailed case studies from semi-arid Kenya, is shown to be suitable for use in analysis in other geographic regions and across disciplines. The book examines the importance of gender equity to the strengthening of socio-ecological resilience. Case studies reflect multidisciplinary perspectives and focus on a range of issues, from microfinance to informal seed systems. The book’s gender perspective also incorporates consideration of age or generational relations and cultural dimensions in order to embrace the complexity of existing socio-economic realities in rural farming communities. The issue of succession of farmland has become a general concern, both to farmers and to researchers focused on building resilient farming systems. Building resilience here is shown to involve strengthening households’ and communities’ overall livelihood capabilities in the face of ongoing climate change, global market volatility and political instability.

Download or read book Women Livestock Ownership and Markets written by Jemimah Njuki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides empirical evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique and from different production systems of the importance of livestock as an asset to women and their participation in livestock and livestock product markets. It explores the issues of intra-household income management and economic benefits of livestock markets to women, focusing on how types of markets, the types of products and women’s participation in markets influence their access to livestock income. The book further analyses the role of livestock ownership, especially women’s ownership of livestock, in influencing household food security though increasing household dietary diversity and food adequacy. Additional issues addressed include access to resources, information and financial services to enable women more effectively to participate in livestock production and marketing, and some of the factors that influence this access. Practical strategies for increasing women’s market participation and access to information and services are discussed. The book ends with recommendations on how to mainstream gender in livestock research and development if livestock are to serve as a pathway out of poverty for the poor and especially for women.

Download or read book Status Report on the Kenya National Food Security written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Effects of Gender Inequality in Resource Ownership and Access on Household Welfare and Food Security in Kenya written by Pamela Marinda and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender equality and empowerment of women is one of the effective ways to combat poverty, hunger and disease, and to stimulate development that is sustainable. The government of Kenya has made efforts to promote women's active involvement in all areas of societal development, in addition to ensuring that development is based on the contributions and concerns of both men and women. Despite these efforts, there are still clear gender inequalities in areas where both men and women's roles are visible, for example in health, education, agriculture and in some remunerated work. The aim of this paper is to assess the social and economic costs of gender discrimination; these costs are incurred in suboptimal resource allocation, in lost agricultural productivity and in deficient nutrition of household members ... This study argues that: with the same access and control of productive resources by both male and female headed households in a given geographical area, the levels of agricultural productivity and nutrition outcomes in male headed households should not be significantly different from those of female headed households. Any difference would be attributed to differences in access to resource caused by gender discrimination. The study analyses the food and nutrition situation in female and male headed households in relation to access to human capital, financial capital and land. The results show that human and financial capitals are the main resources that caused variations in both agricultural productivity and nutritional status in the two categories of households. Despite male headed households having access to more land than the female headed households, there was no significant difference in average area of land cultivated in the two categories of households. Economic cost analysis of unequal access to resources by gender is done using an econometric model.

Download or read book Assessing the impact of COVID 19 on rural women and men in Kenya written by Alvi, Muzna Fatima and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kenyan government declared a nationwide dusk to dawn curfew in March 2020 that was lifted in large parts later in the year, followed by off-and-on reinstatements of curfews and limitations on mobility largely for the capital region. The government also banned religious and other public gatherings and encouraged people to work from home and practice social distancing. The government has extended social protection programs, including public works programs and stipends and cash transfers, which are often targeted to women and single parent households and other vulnerable members of society to support them through the pandemic.

Download or read book Climate Variability and Water Resources Degradation in Kenya written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report, based on a complex analytical methodology, provides a clear economic rationale for investing in improved water resources development and management in Kenya. It is part of the World Bank's policy dialogue on water resources management reforms and investment planning in Kenya. It focuses on the economic implications of two key factors that make the economy and people of Kenya highly vulnerablethe effects of climate variability and the steady degradation of the nation's water resources. The 1997-2000 El Nio-La Nia episodes cost the country Ksh 290 billion, about 14 percent of GDP.

Download or read book Handbook of Nutrition and Pregnancy written by Carol J. Lammi-Keefe and published by Humana Press. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​This easy to use text provides practitioners and researchers with a global view of current and emerging issues concerned with successful pregnancy outcomes and approaches that have been successful or show promise in ensuring a successful pregnancy. The fully updated and revised second edition expands its scope with topics not covered in the first edition including pregnancy and military service; sleep disorders during pregnancy; the gut microbiome during pregnancy and the newborn; requirement for vitamin D in pregnancy; the environment—contaminants and pregnancy; preeclampsia and new approaches to treatment; health disparities for whites, blacks, and teen pregnancies; depression in pregnancy—role of yoga; safe food handling for successful pregnancy outcome; relationship of epigenetics and diet in pregnancy; caffeine during pregnancy; polycystic ovary syndrome; US Hispanics and preterm births; celiac disease and pregnancy; cannabis use during pregnancy. The second edition of Handbook of Nutrition and Pregnancy will be a valuable resource for clinicians and other healthcare professionals who treat and counsel women of child-bearing age and pregnant women.

Download or read book The Relationship Between Women Empowerment and Food Security in Kenya written by Maryam Jillani and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Food Security in Practice written by Maria Agnes R. Quisumbing and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2006 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New evidence this year corroborates the rise in world hunger observed in this report last year, sending a warning that more action is needed if we aspire to end world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. Updated estimates show the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to prevailing levels from almost a decade ago. Although progress continues to be made in reducing child stunting, over 22 percent of children under five years of age are still affected. Other forms of malnutrition are also growing: adult obesity continues to increase in countries irrespective of their income levels, and many countries are coping with multiple forms of malnutrition at the same time – overweight and obesity, as well as anaemia in women, and child stunting and wasting.

Download or read book Agriculture Food and Nutrition for Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gaining Women s Views on Household Food Security in Wote Sublocation Kenya written by Bernice N. Mulandi and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sub-Saharan Africa, food production is declining and many people are malnourished. My study asks: (1) what are women doing to meet their household food needs; and (2) how do they perceive opportunities and challenges towards achieving food security. I worked with two women's groups in a semiarid region that is at risk because of low incomes and agricultural potential. Activity schedules and seasonal calendars show how these women rely equally on their farms and purchases. They photographed enterprises that provide food for their homes and small incomes. Venn diagrams show how the role of outside institutions increases during "bad years" but the women emphasize that their security cannot rely on this support. Food security agencies need to focus on women's triple role by working with women's groups to increase the production of crops that can also be sold, and to plan for the distribution of food aid.

Download or read book Measuring Food Security Using Household Expenditure Surveys written by Lisa C. Smith and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Investigation Into Food Security Among Female headed Households in Kenya written by Beatrice Kabui Icheria and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Food Summit (WFS) of 1996 in Rome stipulated that food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active life and healthy life. Every human being has a right to live in conditions that ensures food security, irrespective of their social or economic situations. This study is an investigation into food security among female-headed households in Kenya, focusing on Voi Division in Taita-Taveta County as the case for the study. The study was guided by the Ecological Systems perspective by Urie Bronfenbrenner, (1979). In the Millennium Development Goals term (2000-2015), food security was a vivid indicator of the MDG1. Moreover, in the post-Millennium, food security is enshrined in the SDG2. Like everyone else, members of FHHs are entitled to food security as stipulated in the WFS of 1996. By highlighting the statuses of food security among FHHs, this report acts as a reference to researchers, policy makers, programme planners and practitioners on food security among FHHs. The question which guided this study is: What is the status of food security among female-headed households in Voi Division, Taita-Taveta County, Kenya? The main goal of this study was to investigate and describe the statuses of food security among female-headed households in Voi Division, Taita-Taveta County, Kenya. The study was guided by the following specific objectives, which were to: iÌ80́(℗ʺ Determine the status of dietary diversity among female-headed households in Voi Division, Kenya by utilising dietary diversity score as an indicator of food security. iÌ80́(℗ʺ Measure food consumption frequency among female-headed households in Voi Division, Kenya by utilising food consumption score as an indicator of food security. iÌ80́(℗ʺ Determine the overall status of food security among female-headed households in Voi Division, Kenya. Describe the statuses of food security among female-headed households in Voi Division, Kenya and provide practice guidelines regarding the food security statuses. The study approach was pragmatism, a research paradigm of mixed methods of triangulating quantitative and qualitative phases. The type of the study was an applied research, whose design was convergent parallel design of triangulating cross-sectional survey and collective case study designs for quantitative and qualitative phases respectively. Quantitative phase The study utilised a randomised cross-sectional survey design in data collection for quantitative part. The cross-sectional survey yielded quantitative findings which are presented and discussed in chapter 5 of this report. The reliability of the questionnaire was tested through piloting among 14 respondents. Content validity of the questionnaire was ensured by making it conventional to the relevant technical domains of measuring food security, and seeking guidance from supervisor. Additionally, the researcher structured and formatted questions in a logical order, and utilised relevant questions to the study to enhance the questionnaire's face validity. Moreover, the study supervisor also provided instruction, and the pilot test respondents' provided opinions on the relevance of the items in the questionnaire. Population for the quantitative survey was all female-headed households, as the universe or target population of the study; while all de jure female household heads were prioritised as the accessible population, for they displayed characteristics of interest with the objectives of the study. Sampling of the de jure female-headed households was done using the following inclusion criteria: iÌ80́(℗ʺ Female household heads must have been aged 18 years and above; iÌ80́(℗ʺ The female household heads must not have been attached to any male household headship; iÌ80́(℗ʺ The female household heads must have had dependents; and iÌ80́(℗ʺ The female household heads must have been functionally proficient in either English or Kiswahili. The quantitative phase of the study utilised a structured researcher-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire was structured according to recommendations by Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA), which offers technical guidance on how to generate food and nutrition survey questions. The survey respondents were female-household heads, who were also the principal household caregivers. The researcher conducted pre-testing of the questionnaire for the quantitative part among 14 female household heads in Mwatate Division in Taita-Taveta County, and these respondents were not part of the main study. Prior to the actual survey, the researcher trained her research assistants on data collection procedures. The research commenced with researcher or research assistants visiting the respondents at their households and convenient places they had agreed to respond at, to administer the questionnaire. Computer software packages the Microsoft (MS) Excel and Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) were used in organising and analysing quantitative data. Qualitative phase The participants for key informants' interviews were workers in organisations or institutions that dealt with food security in the Voi Division. The units for observations and photographs were the female-headed households. Research instruments for the qualitative phase were semi-structured interview schedule (and cellphone audio-recorder), observation checklist and digital camera for key informants' interviews, observations, and photograph-taking respectively. The researcher pre-tested the interview schedule and the audio-recorder with two key informants who were excluded from the main inquiry. The digital camera was pretested along with the questionnaire. The data from the qualitative phase was prepared and analysed spirally through scrutinising the data, making data back-ups on computer folders, and retrieving the data for the analysis. Computer software programmes MS Word, MS Excel, and SPSS were used for the analysis. To ensure credibility of qualitative findings, researcher prioritised emic interpretation and made her own opinions (etic interpretation) secondary.

Download or read book The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updates for many countries have made it possible to estimate hunger in the world with greater accuracy this year. In particular, newly accessible data enabled the revision of the entire series of undernourishment estimates for China back to 2000, resulting in a substantial downward shift of the series of the number of undernourished in the world. Nevertheless, the revision confirms the trend reported in past editions: the number of people affected by hunger globally has been slowly on the rise since 2014. The report also shows that the burden of malnutrition in all its forms continues to be a challenge. There has been some progress for child stunting, low birthweight and exclusive breastfeeding, but at a pace that is still too slow. Childhood overweight is not improving and adult obesity is on the rise in all regions. The report complements the usual assessment of food security and nutrition with projections of what the world may look like in 2030, if trends of the last decade continue. Projections show that the world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and, despite some progress, most indicators are also not on track to meet global nutrition targets. The food security and nutritional status of the most vulnerable population groups is likely to deteriorate further due to the health and socio economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report puts a spotlight on diet quality as a critical link between food security and nutrition. Meeting SDG 2 targets will only be possible if people have enough food to eat and if what they are eating is nutritious and affordable. The report also introduces new analysis of the cost and affordability of healthy diets around the world, by region and in different development contexts. It presents valuations of the health and climate-change costs associated with current food consumption patterns, as well as the potential cost savings if food consumption patterns were to shift towards healthy diets that include sustainability considerations. The report then concludes with a discussion of the policies and strategies to transform food systems to ensure affordable healthy diets, as part of the required efforts to end both hunger and all forms of malnutrition.