Promoting women's engagement in aquaculture production: Does it always lead to household food and nutrition security? Ranjitha Puskur and Shakuntala Thilstead present at the Global Conference on Women in Agriculture (GCWA), New Delhi, India. March 14, 2012.

1. Promoting women’s engagement in aquac ulture produc tion:
Does it always lead to hous ehold food and nutrition s ec urity?
Ranjitha Pus kur and S hakuntala Thils ted
The WorldFis h C enter
Penang, Malays ia
Session 1.4 Role of Women in household Food and Nutrition Security
Global Conference on Women in Agriculture
New Delhi, India
14 March 2012
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2. C lic k to ad d title
• Food availability ≠ Food security
• Food Security ≠ Nutrition Security
• Good nutrition = f (food, care, health, knowledge)
• Nutrition outcomes = f (household income and expenditure patterns,
caregiver income, caregiver time and workload, decisions of intra-
household dietary allocation and intake)
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3. Source: Andersen 2011
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4. fis h an d n u tritio n
• fish provide about 20 % of animal protein globally to about 2.6 billion people –
more than 30% in developing countries
• major source of micronutrients
• widely consumed by poor being relatively affordable than other animal protein
sources
• though low income households consume less fish than the rich, lowest income
households spend more money on fish than other animal products
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5. market
prices and
demand
time and
care
Making a difference in the lives of the poor Source Kawarazuka N. (2010).:

6. n e e d e d ..
• development of time and labour saving technologies
• nutritional education and behavioural change
• transformational change to challenge roles and norms
• empirical evidence to demonstrate the extent of prevalence of the
multiple pathways and, actual food security and nutrition outcomes at the
household level
– need for robust methodologies
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