Ensuring a Square Meal

Research on women and food security in Southeast Asia has been limited. The collection of chapters in Ensuring a Square Meal: Women and Food Security in Southeast Asia is one of the first attempts at providing a lens into the linkages between women and food security at the household, community, national and transnational levels. More broadly, the chapters examine women's contribution to the food security of households, resource distribution to produce food, and the purchasing power to buy food. In analysing the various facets to food security in relation to gender, the analyses focus on women and food security within the meanings of "private" and "public", and the extent to which the effects of the two spheres spill over into each other. Given women's critical role in food and agricultural production and provision, Ensuring a Square Meal: Women and Food Security in Southeast Asia assesses the structural forces that enable women to access productive resources and, in turn, ensure sustainable strategies for food security at the household level.
Sample Chapter(s)
Chapter 1: Key Issues in Gender and Food Security

Contents: DedicationAcknowledgementsKey issues in Gender and Food Security (Theresa W Devasahayam)Food Security in Rural Areas: Alternate Definitions, Measurement, and Gender Issues (Richard Barichello and Rupananda Widanage)Indonesian Women and Food Security: Evidence from the RASKIN Programme (Aekapol Chongvilaivan and Thanut Tritasavit)The Food Security Programme in the Food-Vulnerable Communities of Java, Indonesia: The Need for a Gender Lens (Titik Sumarti)Women's Critical Role in Ensuring Food Security in Southern Vietnam (Truong Thi Ngoc Chi and Thelma R Paris)"We Women Know More About the Seeds": Ethnic Minority Food Security and the Gendered Implications of Hybrid Rice in Upland Northern Vietnam (Sarah Turner and Christine Bonnin)What Roles Do Women's Status and Household Food Security Play in Relation to Child Nutrition in Vietnam? (Phuong Hong Nguyen, Disha Ali, David B Duong, Nemat Hajeebhoy, Rahul Rawat, and Purnima Menon)Property Rights, Food Security, and Gender: The Impact of the Expansion of Palm Oil Plantations on Native Communities in Sarawak, Malaysia (Lee Poh Onn)Farming and Food Security: The Role of Remittances among Indonesian Women Migrants (Theresa W Devasahayam)What One Hand Gives, the Other Takes Away: Migration, Food Insecurity, and Women in the Philippines (Jorge V Tigno)
Readership: Students and professionals interested in gender studies, Southeast Asian studies and food security studies.
Women's Studies;Gender Studies;Food Security;Food Sovereignty;Southeast Asia;Vietnam;Indonesia;Malaysia;The Philippines;Migration Studies;Ethnic Studies;Remittance;Child Nutrition;Food Security Programmes;Rural Areas0Key Features:One of the first attempts at providing a lens into the links between women and food security, both at the household, community, national, and transnational levelsAims to highlight the complex linkages between a woman's role in food security in the household, and factors and conditions outside the household context and, in turn, demonstrate that the interconnectedness between the private and public realmsFills a gap in the literature on food security in Southeast Asia, aside from numerous reports produced by multilateral organisations and NGOs