Maternal Employment and Household Food Production: Implications for Nutrition and Obesity

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonatan Ben-Shalom
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Employment ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Household Food Production

scholarly journals Salinity and food security in southwest coastal Bangladesh: impacts on household food production and strategies for adaptation

Food Security ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yukyan Lam ◽  
Peter J. Winch ◽  
Fosiul Alam Nizame ◽  
Elena T. Broaddus-Shea ◽  
Md. Golam Dostogir Harun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
Floodplain Management ◽  
Ganges River ◽  
External Resources ◽  
Coastal Bangladesh ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Household Food Production

AbstractThe rising salinity of land and water is an important, but understudied, climate change-sensitive trend that can exert devastating impacts on food security. This mixed methods investigation combines salinity testing with qualitative research methods to explore these impacts in one of the most salinity-affected regions in the world—the Ganges River Delta. Data collection in 2015 and 2016 undertaken in Bangladesh’s southwest coastal region and Dhaka consisted of 83 in-depth household and stakeholder interviews, six community focus groups, and salinity testing of 27 soil and 45 surface and groundwater samples. Results show that household food production is a multifaceted cornerstone of rural livelihood in the southwest coastal region, and virtually every component of it—from rice plantation and homestead gardening to livestock cultivation and aquaculture—is being negatively affected by salinity. Although households have attempted multiple strategies for adapting food production, effective adaptation remains elusive. At the community level, improved irrigation and floodplain management, as well as restrictions on saltwater aquaculture to abate salinity, are viewed as promising interventions. However, the potential of such measures remains unrealized on a broad scale, as they require a level of external resources and regulation not yet provided by the NGO and government sectors. This study elucidates issues of accessibility, equity, and governance surrounding agricultural interventions for climate change-related salinity adaptation, and its findings can help inform the community of organizations that will increasingly need to grapple with salinity in order to guarantee food security in the context of environmental change.

scholarly journals Empowering Women Farmers in Tanzania Through Communication for Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Robert Agunga ◽  
Camilius Aloyce Sanga ◽  
Elizabeth Isaya
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Women Farmers ◽  
African Women ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Household Food Production ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Communication For Development ◽  
Production Resources

African women play a major role in the development and industrialization of the continent. They account for up to80% of household food production by smallholder farmers. In spite of their large numbers, African women generallydo not have access to agricultural production resources, such as land and credit. Their access to land is often throughtheir husbands and fathers and usually loses their property rights as a consequence of widowhood, divorce, ordesertion. This study of women farmers in Tanzania argues that farming is the main source of livelihood for womenand the key to their empowerment. The study, therefore, examines how communication or access to information, canserve as the vehicle for women farmers’ empowerment in Tanzania.

scholarly journals Impact of an enhanced homestead food production program on household food production and dietary intake of women aged 15-49 years and children aged 6-59 months: a pragmatic delayed cluster randomized control trial protocol

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najma A. Moumin ◽  
Kroeun Hou ◽  
Kristina D. Michaux ◽  
Ame Stormer ◽  
Gary Mundy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Household Food Production ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Cluster Randomized ◽  
The Impact

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Undernutrition remains a public health problem in Cambodia. To address this, Helen Keller International has implemented an enhanced homestead food production (EHFP) program that provides agricultural inputs and, nutrition, hygiene, and gender empowerment training. This research evaluates the impact of EHFP on dietary intake of women and children and, household food production.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> This two-year pragmatic delayed cluster randomized controlled trial will be conducted in 600 households in Kampot, Cambodia. Half the households will be randomly assigned to the intervention group and administered the EHFP program immediately. The remaining households (control) will be delayed for one year after which they will receive EHFP. In year one in the control group and year two in the intervention group, household data on food production and income generation will be collected using monthly surveys and, dietary data will be collected using 24-hour recalls from women 15-49 years and children 6-59 months twice during the year. Primary outcomes are differences between the treatment groups in mean intake of zinc and vitamin A among women and children. Secondary outcomes are differences between the treatment groups for other key nutrients and the incremental net monetary benefit of EHFP. Additional outcomes including household food security, women’s empowerment, and hygiene practices from larger project data will also be assessed.</p><p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> The results of this trial will assess the impact of EHFP on household food production and the dietary intake of women and children.</p>

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