What role do women play in agriculture production in different parts of the world How do female workers lives and roles in less developed countries LDCs differ from those in more developed countries MDCs ID: 512971
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Women in Agriculture
What role do women play in agriculture production in different parts of the world?How do female workers’ lives and roles in less developed countries (LDCs) differ from those in more developed countries (MDCs)?What are hunger vulnerability and food security? Which issues define them?Is there a relationship between gender equity and food security?Slide2
Vocab:
hunger vulnerability: likelihood of current or future exposure of a group to undernourishment and undernutrition. -undernourishment: not getting enough calories. -undernutrition: not receiving or poorly absorbing nutrients in the diet.Food insecurity: the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
The following three issues lead to high hunger vulnerability and food insecurity:
Insufficient national food supply
High poverty, which decreases household access to foodLow nutrition among household membersSlide3
Cartogram: Percentage of female agricultural works worldwide.
Source: Worldmapper.orgSlide4
Cartogram: Percentage of tractors in use worldwide
Source: Worldmapper.org Slide5Slide6
Pictured here are women thinning rice plants by hand while a machine plow operated by a man on the other side of the field is tilling the Earth along the Mekong River, Vietnam. It is not unusual to find women having different access to technology-whether it is agricultural or information-than men in both the core or periphery. Differential access to technology, training, and jobs helps to constitute greater division of labor in workplaces as well as at home. (Knox, p.303)Slide7
“I should also express my deep admiration of and appreciation for the farm wife. She has always managed the household, raised the family, milked the cows, fed the chickens, tended the garden, kept the books, and had a hot meal waiting whenever the farmer came in from the field. More recently she has taken the place of the hired man as mechanization has reduced the need for brute strength and increased the importance of intelligence and skill. She is so quietly efficient that it is easy to underestimate her contribution, but the farm could not function without her.”
From John Fraser Hart, Geography professor and author from the University of MinnesotaSlide8
Role of Women on Farms
With the person sitting next to you, analyze and compare the documents on handout #3 (image and text excerpt) and answer the following questions in your notes.Which aspects of the role of women in agriculture, as depicted in the supplied sources, are similar?Which differences can be inferred?Slide9
Vocab:
hunger vulnerability: likelihood of current or future exposure of a group to undernourishment and undernutrition. -undernourishment: not getting enough calories. -undernutrition: not receiving or poorly absorbing nutrients in the diet.Food insecurity: the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
The following three issues lead to high hunger vulnerability and food insecurity:
Insufficient national food supply
High poverty, which decreases household access to foodLow nutrition among household membersSlide10
Role of Women in Food Security
Using the handout, brainstorm ways in which women may play a role or roles in each of the three issues that lead to hunger vulnerability and food insecurity. In other words, how might women contribute to the issues leading to food hunger vulnerability?Slide11
Increases in women’s income and empowerment correspond to improved child nutrition.
The higher the gender inequality in a country, the higher its vulnerability to hunger and food insecurity.Slide12
“Women and Agriculture: A Conversation on Improving Global Food Security”
Task: Read the excerpt from the discussion and annotate specific references to ways in which gender equity for women can lead to improvements in each of the three issues that lead to hunger vulnerability and food insecurity.Slide13
“I should also express my deep admiration of and appreciation for the farm wife. She has always managed the household, raised the family, milked the cows, fed the chickens, tended the garden, kept the books, and had a hot meal waiting whenever the farmer came in from the field. More recently she has taken the place of the hired man as mechanization has reduced the need for brute strength and increased the importance of intelligence and skill. She is so quietly efficient that it is easy to underestimate her contribution, but the farm could not function without her.”
From John Fraser Hart, Geography professor and author from the University of MinnesotaQuestion: How does this statement, made of females on farms in a developed country, shed light on how improvements in gender equity in LDCs might reduce food insecurity?Slide14
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