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Food Security in Kazakhstan: Do Gender Inequalities Affect?

In: Education, Human Rights and Peace in Sustainable Development

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  • Maigul Nugmanova

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Kazakhstan has a large reserve of natural resources to provide the food self-sufficiency with domestic production. It could be three times more than population needs. However, Kazakhstan depends on food import and the agricultural sector accounts for 5% of GDP only. The actual poverty is higher than official data indicate, and it's about four times more in rural areas where 46% of population resides and one-fifth of the working-age population is employed. Women represent the majority among the poor and unemployed and face unequal treatment in labor market and burden of larger unpaid household workload. All of this decreases women's purchasing power, lowering economic access to quality food. This paper examines the interaction of gender inequality and food insecurity, applying the growth constraints analysis and engendering this approach and the empirical research on Karaganda oblast. It argues that gender inequality and rural poverty are linked to high economic costs and constraints in agriculture development and food security attainment.

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  • Maigul Nugmanova, 2020. "Food Security in Kazakhstan: Do Gender Inequalities Affect?," Chapters, in: Maigul Nugmanova & Heimo Juhani Mikkola & Alexander Rozanov & Valentina V. Komleva (ed.), Education, Human Rights and Peace in Sustainable Development, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:207921
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.90339
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    Keywords

    gender economics; food security; rural poverty; growth constraints analysis; Kazakhstan;
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    • M14 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility

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