Good practices on gender and food security

Ranjani.K.Murhty and Mercy Kappen

Objectives

on gender and food security

Good practices of each other

Good practices of others

Framework for understanding good practices on gender and food security

• Exchange entitlements

• Production possibilities

• Consumption entitlements

• Endow-ments

WomenWomen & girls

WomenWomen

Expanding endowments of women

women•Collective

land ownership

women

women •Collective land lease

women• Individual

Land lease

Individual land ownership

Landless HHDalitsAdivasisWHH

Expanding production possibilities of resources of women

Women managed

Diverse food crops

watershed

Community seed banks

Sustainable

practices

Landless HHDalitsAdivasisWHH

Expanding Exchange options of women

Payment of wages in kind

Equal wages for work of equal value

Setting up alternative PDS

Monitoring of mainstream PDS

Expanding consumption options of women and girls

Women managed child care and

nutrition

centres

Monitoring of MDMS, ICDS schemes

Intervening at HH level to address

gender inequalities in

nutrition

Food security concepts and entitlements framework

Food utilization Consumption entitlements

Food accessibility Exchange options

Food Availability Endowment/ownership entitlements

Food Production