WUNRN
GENDER, NUTRITION, & THE RIGHT
TO ADEQUATE FOOD - REPORT
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When so many call for inclusion of women and a gender perspective in food security, why is the status of women and girls in terms of food security still not improving? When the goal of food security is improved health status for everyone, why do research, policy, trade, and civil society engagement divide their energies between food production on the one hand and malnutrition on the other, the apparent outcome being food trade profits coexisting with increased hunger, food "shortages", and social instability?
The Department of Gender and Nutrition at the University of Hohenheim
(UHOH), together with the International Secretariat of the FoodFirst
Information Action Network (FIAN-International), are developing a focused approach
on Gender, Nutrition and the Human Right to Adequate Food. This endeavor has
two objectives: it reflects upon the reasons why gender is not adequately
addressed in right to adequate food planning and advocacy, and it inquires into
how pro-nutrition approaches can and should bridge food production research and
policy with the goal of healthy communities. Our approach employs the legal and
institutional frameworks of human rights and human dignity wherein individuals
and groups have the right to self-determination and the right to feed
themselves. 