LANSA Pakistan wins the Best Paper award
Sidra Mazhar, Mysbah Balagamwala and Haris Gazdar won the Best Paper Award for “The Hidden Economic Backbone - Women in Agriculture” presented at the LUMS International Conference on Gender, Work, and Society in April 2017. This LANSA paper argues that despite efforts on the part of national data collection organisations, flagship surveys such as the Labour Force Survey continue to undercount women’s contribution to the economy. Fresh approaches are needed for the proper enumeration and analysis of women’s work – approaches which are based on a grounded theoretical understanding of existing social norms and narratives about work.
From “Why?” to “Let’s Work!” on Kitchen Gardens
Action Against Hunger is carrying out a study in Pakistan on ‘Peoples’ perspective and feasibility of kitchen gardening in different geographical and environmental contexts’ funded under the Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia’s second Responsive Window grant.
Connecting research interests to ongoing debates at ANH
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Agricultural work in Pakistan is becoming feminised and accounts for more than 70 per cent in the work force. How well is women’s agricultural work recognised by policymakers in the country might still be unclear, but is a key research interest to better understand the linkages between women’s agricultural work and their health outcomes.
