Gender in nutrition Flashcards
why is nutrition central to women’s empowerment
nutrition promotes gender equality via improved health outcomes
increased educational attainment
greater economic participation
how does nutrition promote gender equality vis improved health outcomes?
nutrition is key to healthy pregnancies and reproductive health
healthy pregnancy results in a lower risk of death due to pregnancy or childbirth-related causes
how is increased educational attainment related to nutrition?
malnourished girls complete less school= barriers to high-paying jobs and more likely to marry early and have more kids
adequate nutrition promotes optimal brain development
how does nutrition impact greater economic contribution
malnutritoin affects womens employment prospects
example: anemia = reduced physical and mental capacity
what were the findings from paper “ pathways from live stock to improved human nutrition: lessons learned in East africa”
when women had greater control over assets and income they were able to allocate own-produced milk to the household or sell it for more and better quality food
however, when intervention to increase milk production were in place men took over and did not priortise purchases of food for the household
author and year of paper “ pathways from live stock to improved human nutrition: lessons learned in East africa”
Flax,. 2022
result of the girinka program
improved household food secruity enough to improve nutritonal status of children
where and what was one of the girinka programs
rwanda
one cow per family
what does girinka mean
donation
what does ILRI stand for
International Livestock Research Institute
Where was the engaging men study
rwanda
what was attempted by ‘engaging men’
-fathers were encourages to ensure their children received milk from thier own cow
-increase joint decision making by men and women about use of home-produced milk
-increase fathers’ purchases of ASF’s for children
what does ASF stand for
animal sourced foods
results form engaging men study
children from 12-59 months reports to have had milk 2 or more times significantly increased from baseline
Where was the more milk project
kenya and tanzania
what does SBCC
social and behaviour change communication
aim of the more milk project
find evidence that informal milk markets can be leveraged to improve child nutrition and health
where was the gap in milk consumption
milk production was increasing but household intake wasnt
outcome of moremilk in Tanzania
promoted dairy market hubs in order to facilitate access to inputs, services, and markets for small-scale livestock
lessons learned from more milk
women’s empowerment in livestock-to-nutrition is important but hard to measure
engaging males is important
livestock does not = access to Animal based food
increasing gender equity and joint decision making is important
