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Siyanda Update: Gender and Food Security, Issue No. 68, August 2008
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In This Issue:
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I. Quick Guide: Gender and Food Security
II. Country Focus: Malawi
III. Experts' and Consultants' Database: a selection of published work
from Siyanda Experts on gender and food security IV. Contribute
section: share news, resources, opportunities and perspectives

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I. Quick Guide: Gender and Food Security
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How can gendered inequalities in food security be eliminated, both in
local food production and availability, and in national and global
policy processes? The following resources are from a selection which
have been summarised and included in the Siyanda database:

- Gender and Food Security: Inequalities in Relation to Hunger (in
French), Genre en Action, July 2008 Why have women been so
involved in
food riots across Africa, what are the underlying causes behind their
motivation to protest on the streets, and how should policy-makers
respond to what they are saying?
http://www.siyanda.org/static/direnberger_hunger.htm?em=0808&tag=Q
G

- Website: Gender and Food Security (in Arabic, English, French, and
Spanish), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO) This website provides gender information on nine key aspects of
food security - agriculture, the environment, forestry, fisheries,
rural economies, population, nutrition, education and the gender
division of labour.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/fao_gender_website.htm?em=0808&tag=
QG

- Women and Food Crises: How US Food Aid Policies Can Better
Support
their Struggles. A Discussion Paper, ActionAid USA, January 2008
Women
are often at the centre of food crises and are disproportionately
affected by hunger, yet their important role in providing solutions is
often overlooked. This paper calls for comprehensive programmes
designed to support women's crucial contributions to agricultural
production.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Hansen-
Kuhn_food_crises.htm?em=0808&tag=
QG

- Biopolitics, Climate Change and Water Security: Impact Vulnerability
and Adaptation Issues for Women, Networked Intelligence, January
2007
This article, which examines how climate change will impact on water
security, argues that it is critical for women to have the necessary
information, tools and resources to plan and take decisions around
water security.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Tandon_biopolitics.htm?em=0808&tag=Q
G

- EPAs, An Assault on Africa's Food Sovereignty: Why a Gender and
Women's Rights Analysis is Important for Africa, ACORD International,
January 2007 Women in Sub-Saharan Africa have been most affected
by
international free trade agreements that reduce tariffs for importing
countries, but not usually found in decision and policy making
platforms that guide the food sovereignty agenda of their countries.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/accord_epas.htm?em=0808&tag=QG

- Women and Food Security in South Asia, The United Nations
University
- World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER),
December 2006 This report explores why despite improvements in food
security in South Asia over the last few decades, nutritional
outcomes, especially those related to women and children, have failed
to keep pace.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ramachandran_asia.htm?em=0808&tag=
QG

- Building on Gender, Agrobiodiversity and Local Knowledge - a
Training Manual, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nation (FAO), January 2005 What are the linkages between local
knowledge systems, gender roles and relationships, the conservation
and management of agrobiodiversity, plant and animal genetic
resources, and food security? This training manual aims to promote a
holistic understanding of these components.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/fao_agrobiodiversity_training.htm?em=080
8&tag=QG

You can find additional resources on Food Security in Siyanda at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/results.cfm?Keywords=food_security08&
Sub
ject=0&Donor=0&Langu=E&StartRow=1&em=0808&tag=QG

Social Protection will be the next Quick Guide theme, in September
2008. Users are invited to suggest resources on this topic for
possible inclusion in the database:
http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0808&tag=CS

Please also visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes:
http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm?em=0808&tag=QG

II. Country Focus: Malawi
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- Assessment of Equity in the Uptake of Anti-retrovirals in Malawi,
Regional Network for Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa,
April 2008 This study assesses equity in the uptake of antiretroviral
therapy in Malawi in 2005 according to age, gender and income levels.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/equinet_anti-retrovirals.htm?em=0808&tag
=CF

- Metaphors We Love By: Conceptualizations of Sex among Young
People
in Malawi, African Journal of Reproductive Health, December 2007 How
do young people in Malawi conceptualise sexuality and sexual
relations, and on what basis do they understand risks involved and
make behavioural decisions?
http://www.siyanda.org/static/undie_metaphors.htm?em=0808&tag=CF

- Gender Assessment for Malawi, Statistics Norway, January 2007
This report highlights gender disparities in Malawi and makes
suggestions on how to improve the situation for women. It focuses on
six key areas: education, work and employment, agriculture,
female-headed households, violence and HIV/AIDS.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/mathiassen_malawi.htm?em=0808&tag=C
F

- Violence and Abuse against Women with Disabilities in Malawi,
SINTEF
Health Research, November 2006 This research project studies the
nature of abuse and neglect of women with disabilities in Malawi.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/sintef_disabilities.htm?em=0808&tag=CF

- An Introduction to Gender Audit Methodology: its Design and
Implementation in DFID Malawi, Overseas Development Institute (ODI),
May 2005 This background paper outlines the methodology used during
an
audit of the UK Department for International Development's (DFID)
gender equality and mainstreaming work in Malawi.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Moser_gender_audit.htm?em=0808&tag=
CF

You can find resources in Siyanda about Malawi at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/results.cfm?Keywords=malawi08&Subje
ct=0&
Donor=0&Langu=E&StartRow=1&em=0808&tag=CF

Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland will be the next Country Focus, in
September 2008. Users are invited to suggest resources on this country
for possible inclusion in the database:
http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0808&tag=CS

Please also visit the Country Focus archive section:
http://www.siyanda.org/country_focus.htm?em=0808&tag=CF

III. Resources from the Experts' and Consultants' Database: A
selection of published work from Siyanda Experts on gender and food
security. ======================================= The
Experts' and
Consultants' Database contains names, contact details and areas of
expertise of people working on gender specific issues worldwide, and
includes some of their publications. The following resources have been
selected from experts who have an interest in gender and food
security:

- Water Resource Management and Food Production in Kenya, Juma,
N.,
2007 - Managing Drylands for Improved Livelihoods in Africa,
Masanganise, P. et al. 2006 - Rules, Roles and Rights: Gender,
Participation and Community Fisheries Management in Cambodia's
Tonle
Sap Region, Resurreccion, B., 2005 - Gender and Agrobiodiversity in
Conservation and Sustainable Use of Agricultural Biodiversity: A
Sourcebook, Torkelsson, Å., 2003 - Male Involvement in Household
Food
Security and Nutritional Care in Oyo State, Nigeria, Oyewole, O., (no
date)

For further details on these publications, copy and paste or type the
author's last name into either the Name or Search Words field on the
Experts' and Consultants' search page:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/?em=0808&tag=EX

The Siyanda Gender Experts' and Consultants' Database, with over
1,300
profiles, can be used as a networking tool for connecting
practitioners, researchers, activists, students and experts with
like-minded colleagues, persons working on similar themes, or in the
same geographical location.

- Enter your details in the database:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/addexp.cfm?em=0808&tag=EX

- Or edit your existing profile:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/editlogin.cfm?em=0808&tag=EX (using
your
user name and password)

The database is also an excellent resource for those seeking experts
for gender-focussed consultancies.

- Search the database:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/?em=0808&tag=EX

IV. Contribute section
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Share your news, resources, opportunities and perspectives in the
following ways:

Post your announcements, information requests, training and funding
opportunities: http://www.siyanda.org/forum/?em=0808&tag=CS

Submit your publications for inclusion in our database, or suggest
other resources: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0808&tag=CS

Post your short pieces of work in the Users' Corner:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120030204122
635&em
=0808&tag=CS

(All summaries in the update are written or adapted by BRIDGE Team
members. This update was edited by Adrian Bannister)

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BRIDGE - Gender and Development
The Institute of Development Studies, Sussex
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