The document discusses good practices for achieving gender equality and food security, using a framework that examines women's endowments, production possibilities, exchange options, and consumption entitlements. It provides examples of good practices such as collective land ownership, diverse food crops, equal wages, and women-managed child nutrition centers to expand opportunities for women and vulnerable groups and promote food security.

1. Good practices on gender and
food security
Ranjani.K.Murhty and Mercy Kappen

2. Objectives
on gender
and food
security
Good practices of each
other
Good practices of others

3. Framework for understanding good
practices on gender and food security
• Exchange
entitlements
• Production
possibilities
• Consumption
entitlements
• Endow-ments
Women
Women
& girls
Women Women

4. Expanding endowments of women
women
• Collective
land
ownership
women
women • Collective
land lease
women
• Individual
Land
lease
Individual
land
ownership
Landless HH
Dalits
Adivasis
WHH

5. Expanding production possibilities of
resources of women
Diverse
food crops
Women
managed
watershed
Community
seed banks
Sustainable
practices
Landless HH
Dalits
Adivasis
WHH

6. Expanding Exchange options of
women
Payment of wages in kind
Equal wages for work of equal value
Setting up alternative PDS
Monitoring of mainstream PDS

7. Expanding consumption options of
women and girls
Women managed
child care and
nutrition
centres
Intervening at HH
level to address
Monitoring of MDMS, ICDS
schemes
gender
inequalities in
nutrition

8. Food security concepts and
entitlements framework
Food Availability
Endowment/ownership entitlements
Food Production
Food accessibility Exchange options
Food utilization Consumption entitlements