Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways

Sara Stevano, Suneetha Kadiyala, Deborah Johnston, Hazel Jean Malapit, Elizabeth Hull and Sofia Kalamatianou

Feminist Economics, 2019, vol. 25, issue 3, 1-22

Abstract: 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 constraints by increasing work burdens. This has become a primary concern in agriculture-nutrition research. But are time-use data useful to explore agriculture-nutrition pathways? This study develops a conceptual framework of the micro-level linkages between agriculture, gendered time use, and nutrition and analyzes how time use has been conceptualized, operationalized, and interpreted in agriculture-nutrition literature on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The paper argues that better metrics, but also conceptualizations and analytics of time use, are needed to understand gendered trade-offs in agriculture-nutrition pathways. In particular, the potential unintended consequences can be grasped only if the analysis of time use shifts from being descriptive to a more theoretical and analytical understanding of time constraints, their trade-offs, and resulting changes in activity.

Date: 2019
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