Women’s agricultural work and nutrition in South Asia: From pathways to a cross-disciplinary, grounded analytical framework

Rao, Nitya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6318-0147, Gazdar, Haris, Chanchani, Devanshi and Ibrahim, Marium (2019) Women’s agricultural work and nutrition in South Asia: From pathways to a cross-disciplinary, grounded analytical framework. Food Policy, 82. pp. 50-62. ISSN 0306-9192

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Abstract

In this systematic review, we aim to examine the impact of women’s work in agriculture on maternal and child nutrition in South Asia. Building on previous reviews supported under the Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) consortium, and recent published literature, we include findings from new LANSA research. While mapping literature onto the gender-nutrition pathways linking agriculture to nutrition (Kadiyala et al., 2014), we also point to conceptual and methodological directions for further exploration emerging from our work. Key amongst these are a focus on seasonality, poverty, and gender relations, moving beyond both an exclusive focus on women as a unified and homogenous group, and agriculture as an unchanging and common set of activities and production processes. Our analysis suggests the need for a more contextualised approach, and for a richer cross-disciplinary framework for effectively addressing the ways in which women’s work mediates agriculture’s role in improving child and maternal nutrition in South Asia.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	nutrition,agriculture,gender,south asia
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Life Course, Migration and Wellbeing Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Health and Disease Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Literacy and Development Group University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	12 Oct 2018 00:05
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2023 13:32
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68479
DOI:	10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.10.014

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