Women's Role in Food Chain Activities and the Implications for Nutrition - Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No. 4

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by
Gerd Holmboe-Ottesen, Ophelia Mascarenhas and Margareta Wandel

UNITED NATIONS		NATIONS UNIES
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE ON COORDINATION/SUBCOMMITTEE ON NUTRITION

May 1989

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Table of Contents

UNITED NATIONS ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE ON COORDINATION - SUBCOMMITTEE ON NUTRITION (ACC/SCN)

PREFACE

PROBLEMS AND POLICY ISSUES

SUMMARY

FOREWORD

Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION

Chapter 2. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND MAIN PROBLEM ISSUES

2.1 Nutrition: problems of definition
2.2 The food chain as an organizing concept
2.3 Main problem areas

Chapter 3. MAIN FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH

3.1 Selection of documentation
3.2 Present trends in research
3.3 Research needs

Chapter 4. DETERMINANTS OF WOMEN'S WORK AND PARTICIPATION IN THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE FOOD CHAIN

4.1 Persistence and change in cultural practices
4.2 Breakdown of cultural practices
4.3 Seasonality
4.4 Socio-economic differentiation
4.5 Macro-level factors of change
4.6 Women and technological change

Chapter 5. WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES IN THE FOOD CHAIN; INFLUENCE ON FAMILY NUTRITION

5.1 Scope
5.2 Women's involvement in food production and the flow of food through the food chain
5.3 Women's control over resources, created in food chain activities; implications for nutrition
5.4 Women's workload and allocation of time to food chain activities; implications for child nutrition
5.5 Factors introducing changes in women's work in the food chain; effects on the household food and nutrition situation
5.6 Attempts to explain the different influences of women's food chain activities on household nutrition

Chapter 6. WOMEN'S FOOD CHAIN ACTIVITIES AND THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE

6.1 Scope
6.2 Women and the Basic Human Needs concept
6.3 Women's status - women's priorities
6.4 Influence of workload on women's health and nutritional status
6.5 Women's time use: Potentialities for satisfying own needs

Chapter 7. AREAS OF CONFLICT AND CONGRUENCE CONCERNING WOMEN'S ROLE IN THE FOOD CHAIN: SOME POLICY ISSUES

Chapter 8. SOME CRITERIA FOR SUCCESSFUL OPERATION OF WOMEN-ORIENTED PROGRAMMES

Chapter 9. TARGET GROUPS AMONG RURAL WOMEN

Chapter 10. MAIN PROBLEM AREAS RELATED TO WOMEN'S FOOD CHAIN ACTIVITIES - POSSIBLE PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS

10.1 Women's workload
10.2 Seasonal variations
10.3 Low productivity in the food chain
10.4 The low status of women
10.5 Lack of infrastructure and services for women

Chapter 11. A FRAMEWORK FOR PLANNING OF "WOMEN AND FOOD"-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS

11.1 The goal of Household Food Security
11.2 Problem identification
11.3 A guide to planning

REFERENCES

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INTRODUCTION

EXPLANATION OF KEY WORDS USED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY

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