Even though women in rural areas in Pakistan take part in a wide range of agricultural activities, the work they do, often arduous and labour-intensive, is not recognised as their individual contribution to the household economy.There exist strong gendered norms around the kinds of work that can be considered paid work for women in agriculture and except for some - such as cotton harvesting and livestock rearing-income from most kinds of work are attributed to the household as a whole. ...
Can social protection programmes lead to greater economic agency for women in agriculture?
Author : Amna AkhtarPublished Date : Friday, October 16, 2015
Supplementary Nutrition Programme: an example of social protection in India
Author : Rohit Parasar and Bhavani R VPublished Date : Friday, October 16, 2015
The Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP) under Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) targets children under six years, adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women to address the problem of under-nutrition, and is an important component that addresses undernutrition in the country.ICDS in India started in 1975, and is regarded as the world’s largest community-based child development programme, operating through a network of childcare centres called Anganwadi having...
Conference reiterates need to stay connected
Author : Nithya DJ & Sarah H KehoePublished Date : Monday, October 12, 2015
Agriculture and Nutrition – connects and disconnects: NSI Conference sums up that experts in both fields have huge role to playAs LANSA researchers keen to understand how Agriculture and Nutrition can be linked to improve Health in India, D J Nithya and Sarah H Kehoe were delighted that the theme of the 47th Annual National Conference of Nutrition Society of India (NSI) was ‘Nutrition and Agriculture - the connect and disconnect.’Both researchers presented LANSA research study...
Agriculture and Nutrition: Leveraging both for Food and Health!
Author : Barbara Harriss-White, LANSA Consortium Advisory Group MemberPublished Date : Wednesday, October 7, 2015
It’s thirty years since Arnold Pacey and Philip Payne published ‘Agricultural Development and Nutrition’, in which they laid out the disconnect between the agricultural science and nutritional science - the latter being then grounded in medicine and biochemistry. They proposed a systems approach from social science to overcome this divide. The late, great Philip Payne wanted to ignite a transformative conversation between Indian home science college teachers, agricultural...
