Women and Food Security in South Asia: Current Issues and Emerging Concerns

Nira Ramachandran (nira_ramachandran@yahoo.com)

Working Papers from eSocialSciences

Abstract: The educated and socially empowered Asian Woman is the key to improving the nutrition and mental acuity of young children and that improvement sets in motion lifelong prospects for heightened learning and earning with benefit streams to families, communities and nations [WIDER Research Paper No. 2006/131].

Keywords: nations; families; communities; women; food security; south asia; children; issues; gender bias; gender; women farmers; female (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-07
Note: Institutional Papers
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.esocialsciences.org/Download/repecDownl ... &AId=1094&fref=repec

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:1094

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Padma Prakash (padmaprakash@esocialsciences.com).