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Gender, Agriculture, Nutrition

Gender, Agriculture, Nutrition. Lynn Brown World Bank, GenRD , SecureNutrition , GDPRD GFAR/GAP S ide Event CFS Oct 10 th 2013. Upstream. What governs agricultural research? Whose needs? Agriculture Production – food or commodity? Cars and food!!! Who does produce food?

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Gender, Agriculture, Nutrition

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  1. Gender, Agriculture,Nutrition Lynn Brown World Bank, GenRD, SecureNutrition, GDPRD GFAR/GAP Side Event CFS Oct 10th 2013

  2. Upstream • What governs agricultural research? • Whose needs? • Agriculture Production – food or commodity? • Cars and food!!! • Who does produce food? • Food Industry – developed versus developing

  3. Focus of Agricultural Research • Focus of agricultural research – commodity based • Staple grains • Input or Output Characteristics?

  4. Gender Preferences • Zambia – men and women grow maize • No need for gender analysis – assumed a new hybrid maize would be good for everyone! • Evaluation of hybrid maize • Men still growing • Women reverted to traditional maize • Why? • Roles of maize for men and women • Men – cash crop • Women – food crop, labor input –yield, milling, storage,

  5. Focus of Agricultural Research • Staple Grains • Input or Output Characteristics? • Sale or storage? • Large Livestock • Cash crops – public/private Commoditization • Fruits? • Vegetables? • Small livestock? • Storage? • Processing?

  6. Environmental EnteropathyEE • Gut permeability • Allows nutrients to leak from the gut • Gambian infants 3-15 mths – 75% of time • Accountable for 43% of long term growth faltering? • Nutrition interventions led to 0.7 Z score increase in height for age • Environment – s***! • Reversible – immigrants, Peace Corps Women’s issue or responsibility?

  7. Mycotoxins • Evidence they cause EE type issues • Aspergillus fungus/mold • Aflatoxins – mostly maize and groundnuts • Fusarium fungus/mold – 100% of maize • FUM • DON • Infected during growth • Worsened during storage, particularly is poor drying

  8. Aflatoxin-Albumin and stunting / underweight (Gong et al., 2002 BMJ) Af--Albpg/mg

  9. Questions • Why doesn’t agricultural research take into account gender issues? • Why is there so little focus on environmental health issues from small livestock, • Why don’t we understand the pathways with respect to nutrition for any mycotoxin? • We do know aflatoxins is one reason deaths from liver cancer are highest in the developing world IT’S A WOMEN’S ISSUE

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