Gender review of MSSRF project titled “Empowering rural women for enhanced household food and nutritional security and income generation through participatory process in cultivation, processing and value addition of locally important under-utilised food grains” : final report

Project locations constitute very different agroecological systems and policy contexts, which are reflected in diverse cropping patterns, lifestyles and social and cultural relations. These in turn impact gendered divisions of work and control over income and assets. This gender review highlights distinctive features of these systems that can contribute to context-specific and tailor-made interventions for empowerment of rural women. Significant trade-offs in terms of choices between food and cash crops; migration and value addition; and provision of labour versus control of activity, lead to key recommendations and suggested interventions for women’s participation derived from this analysis of four sites