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Gender, Food & Nutrition
Security in Asia:
The ADB Experience
The views expressed in this paper are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), or its Board of Governors,
or the governments they represent. ADB does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this paper and accepts no responsibility for any consequence of their use. The
countries listed in this paper do not imply any view on ADB's part as to sovereignty or independent status or necessarily conform to ADB's terminology.
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Volatile & high commodity prices
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A lot of catching up to do!
Region Actual yield(2005, % of
economically
attainable yield)
Yield gap(%)
Western Asia 51 49
Central Asia 36 64
South Asia 45 55
East Asia 89 11
Southeast Asia 68 32
Pacific 43 57
Source: OECD-FAO 2012, 62, Table 2.5
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Complex food security challenges
Long-term food price volatility: inter-linked
with energy & other commodity prices
Scarce water and land resources
Climate change
Urbanization, rising incomes, & diversified
diets
Unmet MDG targets: under-nutrition,hidden hunger, nutrition divide
Feminization of agriculture
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Unfinished agenda: Gender equality
Women dominate: agriculture (40%-50%),livestock (3/4s in livestock related tasks),
fisheries (45m-50m in upstream & downstream
tasks), 20%-30% of world farmworkers
Gender inequality persists: human capital
investments, access to productive assets &
resources, participation in decision-making &
voice Time poverty
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ADB: mainstreaming gender and
development Operational Plan
on Gender Equality
& Women’s
Empowerment,2013- 2020:
Moving the
Agenda Forward in
Asia and thePacific
Strategy 2020:
gender equity as
partner & agent for
change
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Operational Plan for Agriculture and
Natural Resources: 2014 - 2020
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ADB’s agriculture operations: most
gender- friendly
Agriculture with gender focus
(1998-2012)
No. of
projects
%
1. Effective gender
mainstreaming
72 47
2. Gender equity theme 25 16
3. Some gender benefits 27 18
4. No gender benefits 28 18
Total 152 100
60% successful in 1 & 2 relative to 50% for core
areas
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Nepal: multiple outcomes achieved
Formation of self-help groups of
12,159 poor; 70% women
Capacity development (skills
training on crop production,
accounting, finance, marketing) For landless, 141 ha. leased
Outcomes:
i. Expand assets increase
incomes reduce povertyii. education of & more healthy
kids
iii. Sustainable agriculture
iv. Robust rental markets
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Jobs back to the village
103 subprojects in
Fujian, PRC
-730,000 rural
households
- Meet Cao XiamenHangkai Wood Products
-Assembles small pet houses
-Reunited with her 2 kids
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Empowering women matter
The road toempowerment:
Dehong, Yunnan
WUAs inChhattisgarh
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Good Practices
Participatory from planning,implementation, monitoring
Building productive assets for income: best
entry point Multifaceted, multisector, multi-pronged
outcomes, supportive government
Women’s organization, community-driven
Build-in the knowledge Flexible design for context-specific,
innovations
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Priority agenda: link 3 R’s (reduction,
recognition, redistribution)
Context-specific needs stepwise approach: “
hang in”, “step up”, “step-out”
Farm level: improve access Value chains: farms to markets
Form social protection to empowerment
Effective multi-agency coordination Better implementation, & M&E
Accelerate mobilization of women
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Thank you.