women key to food security

Women: The Key to Food & Nutrition Security

hunger poverty environmental

degradation

Women are on the frontlines inthe fight against:

Women: The Key to Food & Nutrition Security

food security prosperity a healthy

environment

© 2006 Don Doering/IFPRI

Years of IFPRI research showsthat empowering women is key for:

Empowering Women: Key Recommendations

eradicate gender discrimination improve the status of women

Reform & monitor legal Institutions to:

Increase access to education for women and girls

Empowering Women: Key Recommendations

Target resources to women, such as:

food aid agricultural inputs

Increase women’s ability to actively participate in the development process

Reform Legal Institutions

property rights inheritance laws divorce laws

Changing:

can improvewomen’s access to land and other resources

Improve Women’s Social & Economic Status

mental health physical health life & longevity

of her children

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Raising a woman’sstatus dramaticallyimproves the:

Increase Female Education

Increasing women’seducation reduces child malnutrition

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Contributions to Reductions in Child Malnutrition, 1970-95

Women's status12%

Health & environment

19%

National food availability

26%

Women's education

43%

Target Resources to Women

credit seeds fertilizer new technologies

Improving women’saccess to resources, such as:

reduces poverty, increases productivity

Research on Women Is Critical to Achieving IFPRI’s Mission

Reducing genderdisparities promotesbetter food and nutrition security for all

© 2006 Don Doering/IFPRI