Quick reads on gender and agriculture: time use, migration, and nutrition

Collecting accurate time use data is notoriously challenging, and gender norms relating to definitions of work can even further obscure accurate time use reporting. Monica Jain of HarvestPlus offers her lessons learned on addressing complexities of measuring women's time use in Bangladesh on the Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange blog.

On the SecureNutrition blog, Nitya Rao sketches some of the tradeoffs between women's work and care for children from recent LANSA research, making the case for agriculture-for-nutrition researchers and practitioners to put gender at the core of our work: Agriculture for Nutrition? Not Without Gender!

Questioning the widespread belief that women don't or can't farm when their partner migrates, World Bank researchers investigate the effects of male migration on the rural women "left behind" in Guatemala.

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