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Women: the key to food security

2000

Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Brown, Lynn R.; Feldstein, Hilary Sims; Haddad, Lawrence James; Peña, Christine | http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3370-6061 Haddad, Lawrence; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5429-1857 Quisumbing, Agnes

This brief examines the key roles that women play in ensuring food security and makes three recommendations of ways to strengthen the food security through policies and programs that enhance women's abilities and resources to fulfill their roles.

Non-PR

IFPRI1; Gender

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AGROVOC Keywords

africa agricultural growth agricultural technology america asia assets bangladesh burkina faso developing countries education egypt ethiopia food security food supply gender ghana health household surveys indonesia kenya mozambique nutrition poverty alleviation property rights south africa women

Bibliographic information

Publisher

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, D.C.

Other Subjects

Household resource allocation; Malnutrition in children; Food distribution; Food policy; Natural resource management

Language

English

Format

4 pages

License

Open Access, IFPRI

Type

Brief; Brief

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Format: Dublin Core

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http://www.ifpri.org/publication/women-1 http://cdm15738.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/125453

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