Women: The Key to Food & Nutrition Security hunger poverty environmental degradation Women are on the frontlines in the fight against:

hunger

poverty

environmental

degradation

Women: The Key to Food & Nutrition Security food security prosperity a healthy environment Years of IFPRI research shows that empowering women is key for: © 2006 Don Doering/IFPRI

food security

prosperity

a healthy environment

Empowering Women: Key Recommendations eradicate gender discrimination improve the status of women Reform & monitor legal Institutions to: Increase access to education for women and girls

eradicate gender discrimination

improve the status of women

Reform & monitor legal Institutions to:

Increase access to education for

women and girls

Empowering Women: Key Recommendations Target resources to women, such as: food aid agricultural inputs Increase women’s ability to actively participate in the development process

Target resources to women, such as:

food aid

agricultural inputs

Increase women’s ability to actively participate in the development process

Reform Legal Institutions property rights inheritance laws divorce laws Changing: can improve women’s access to land and other resources

property rights

inheritance laws

divorce laws

Improve Women’s Social & Economic Status mental health physical health life & longevity of her children Raising a woman’s status dramatically improves the: © 2006 Michael Rubinstein/IFPRI

mental health

physical health

life & longevity

of her children

Increase Female Education Increasing women’s education reduces child malnutrition © 2006 Michael Rubinstein/IFPRI

Increasing

women’s

education

reduces child

malnutrition

Contributions to Reductions in Child Malnutrition, 1970-95

Target Resources to Women credit seeds fertilizer new technologies Improving women’s access to resources, such as: reduces poverty, increases productivity

credit

seeds

fertilizer

new technologies

Research on Women Is Critical to Achieving IFPRI’s Mission Reducing gender disparities promotes better food and nutrition security for all © 2006 Don Doering/IFPRI

Reducing

gender

disparities

promotes

better food

and nutrition

security for all