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Women’s empowerment, food security and nutrition of pastoral communities in Tanzania

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Title Women’s empowerment, food security and nutrition of pastoral communities in Tanzania
 
Creator Galiè, Alessandra
Teufel, Nils
Girard, Amy W.
Baltenweck, Isabelle
Domínguez Salas, Paula
Price, Mindy J.
Jones, Rebecca
Lukuyu, Ben A.
Korir, Luke
Raskind, Ilana G.
Smith, Kristie
Yount, Kathryn M.
 
Subject women
nutrition
gender
food security
pastoralism
 
Description This paper presents a mixed-methods study that examines the relationship between women’s empowerment, household food security, and maternal and child diet diversity (as one indicator of nutrition security) in two regions of Tanzania. Indicators across three domains of women’s empowerment were scored and matched to a household food insecurity access scale. Qualitative research helped appreciate the gender dynamics affecting the women’s empowerment-food security and women’s empowerment-nutrition security nexus. In cluster adjusted regression analyses, scores from each domain were significantly associated with women’s dietary diversity, but not with household food security. All three empowerment domains were positively associated with food security and nutrition in the qualitative analysis. This article discusses these findings and shows the pathways by which respondents saw their empowerment to affect their household food security.
 
Date 2019-12-30
2019-06-28T12:11:22Z
2019-06-28T12:11:22Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Galiè, A., Teufel, N., Girard, A.W., Baltenweck, I., Domínguez-Salas, P., Price, M.J., Jones, R., Lukuyu, B., Korir, L., Raskind, I.G., Smith, K. and Yount, K.M. 2019. Women’s empowerment, food security and nutrition of pastoral communities in Tanzania. Global Food Security 23: 125-134
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101944
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2019.04.005
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 125-134
 
Source Global Food Security