Right to Food and Gender

FAO

Published in : 2007

Available in : English

All over the world, unequal access to power and resources is central to discrimination against women in the community, market, state and even within their own households. Correcting this inequality is vital to realize women’s right to food. Unequal distribution of food leads to increased malnutrition, which can reduce learning potential, increase reproductive and maternal health risks and lower productivity. These factors diminish women’s economic abilities, undermining gender equality and trapping women in a vicious circle of poverty and under-nutrition.

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Originally posted at : FAO - Publications

This resource is listed under:

Themes : Nutrition and human rights, general, Vulnerable groups, general, Right to food, Women and girls

Resource types : Advocacy briefs

Working groups : Nutrition, Ethics and Human Rights