IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/fpr/ifpric/9780896293915_05.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Nutrition-sensitive agriculture for gender equality

In: Advancing gender equality through agricultural and environmental research: Past, present, and future

Author

Listed:
  • Malapit, Hazel J.
  • Heckert, Jessica
  • Scott, Jessica
  • Padmaja, Ravula
  • Quisumbing, Agnes R.

Abstract

Globally, malnutrition remains unacceptably high, and its burden falls disproportionately on women and girls. The 2018 Global Nutrition Report states that women experience a disproportionate burden of some forms of malnutrition: one in three women of reproductive age has anemia; women have a higher prevalence of obesity than men—yet millions of women are underweight (Development Initiatives 2018). Women and adolescent girls have greater nutritional needs. For example, young women’s iron requirements are higher at puberty, and caloric and micronutrient needs are higher during pregnancy and lactation. Poor nutritional status for women and girls also has direct intergenerational consequences via pregnancy and childbirth outcomes (Victora et al. 2008, Black et al. 2013a). The first 1,000 days (start of pregnancy until the child’s second birthday) represent a critical window during which poor nutrition leads to irreversible deficits in children’s development, the ability to learn, and productivity and health in adulthood (ibid.).

Suggested Citation

  • Malapit, Hazel J. & Heckert, Jessica & Scott, Jessica & Padmaja, Ravula & Quisumbing, Agnes R., 2021. "Nutrition-sensitive agriculture for gender equality," IFPRI book chapters, in: Advancing gender equality through agricultural and environmental research: Past, present, and future, chapter 5, pages 189-220, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    • Handle: RePEc:fpr:ifpric:9780896293915_05
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.ifpri.org/cdmref/p15738coll2/id/134686/filename/134901.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fpr:ifpric:9780896293915_05. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ifprius.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.