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Bringing Agriculture and Nutrition Together Using a Gender Lens

Sectors:
Agriculture and Livelihoods | Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture | Gender, Youth, and Social Dynamics
Authors:
KIT | SNV
Year Published:
2015
Resource Type:
Technical Guidance
Language:
English

The paper refers to the current discussions on linking food and nutrition security at program level. It looks at the discussions from a gender lens, and how this demands for a different way of program planning. Through a gender lens, the role women play in food an nutrition, becomes far more complex and interrelated with the roles that men play. It shows the need to plan programs based on kowledge of the current realities of men and women in a particular context and time.