Women’s Knowledge and Food Security

Women play a vital role in the production of food. Most importantly, they are critical in the storage, processing as well as the provision of food at the household level. It is also a fact that as in the case of all policies, those on food are supposed to be informed by existing evidence and realities whose dynamics keep on changing. As key stakeholders in food handling, women have a wealth of knowledge on issues of food and nutrition status. This paper argues on the importance of this knowledge in informing policy issues and programming issues related to food security and nutritional status. The study draws from the findings of a study done in Kenya by the African Women’s Studies Centre (AWSC) of the University of Nairobi and the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics in 2014.
http://journals.uonbi.ac.ke/index.php/aws/article/view/1313/1110