There has been a vast array of work undertaken to assess the factors of sustainable food
security. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of four independent variables in …

Food security can be achieved by taking concurrent actions performed at macro (national)
and micro (household and individual) levels. The usefulness of food security studies for …

Abstract The Indian Government's National Biogas and Manure Management Programme
(NBMMP) seeks to deliver renewable energy services to households across the country by …

Gender relations in Himalayan farm management are influenced by differentiated social
expectations of men and women. How people negotiate their gender role space and how …

Purpose This study adopts three dimensions of women's empowerment:(1) relative
education empowerment,(2) women's autonomy in decision-making and (3) domestic …

Existing research suggests that women spend a disproportionate amount of time on unpaid
housework and childcare compared to men. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence …

There is a resurgence of interest in time-use research driven, inter alia, by the desire to
understand if development interventions, especially when targeted to women, lead to time …

Background Child malnutrition persists globally with men and women playing distinct roles
to support children's nutrition. Women frequently carry the bulk of the workload related to …

Poverty and household food security are much debated issues in development literature,
and women's contributions to food and economic security have received attention for the last …

The realities of starvation and hunger in South Asia are only partially addressed by larger
discourses on food security. At the local level, many Indians continue to experience hunger …