IFPRI Policy Seminar: It Is Time – Gendered Time Use in Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways

Thursday, May 7th, 2015
12:15 pm to 1:45 pm EDT
Please join for lunch beginning at 11:45 am
Live webcast will be available here at the scheduled time.

Moderator: John McDermott, A4NH, IFPRI
Panel: Mark Blackden, World Bank (Ret.); Krista Jacobs, USAID Bureau for Food Security; Deborah Johnston, SOAS, University of London & Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH)

Agricultural development plays a role in improving nutrition. However, time spent on agricultural interventions and practices—especially by women— competes with time needed for resting, childcare, and food preparation, and can have unintended negative consequences for a family’s nutrition.

What interventions are needed to alleviate this additional burden?

This policy seminar will present key findings from a systematic review on agriculture, gendered time use, and nutrition by the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) and IFPRI, and will offer a discussion of policy implications and suggested interventions based on the evidence.