Gender Inequalities and Food and Nutrition (In)Security: Views from Nancy Fraser's Gender Justice Concept
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https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2020.47218Keywords:
Food and Nutrition Security. Gender Analysis. Women. Public PolicyAbstract
Introduction: several international reports have presented women and girls as more vulnerable people who demand social and gender justice to promote food and nutrition security (FNS). In Brazil, the National Food and Nutrition Policy (NFNP) and important FNS programs have a priority focus on women. This essay aims to examine the Brazilian Food and Nutrition Policy from the perspective of Nancy Fraser's concept of gender justice. Method: We analyzed NFNP from Fraser's three-dimensional gender justice concept, with special attention to women as producers, consumers and food managers at home and in the community, as well as the implications of inequalities in access to food, public policy, and programs that aim to overcome the situation of food insecurity among women. Results: The results of this analysis suggest that NFNP promotes mechanisms to expand the conditions of access to food, water, employment, and income redistribution. Likewise, it aims to preserve people's autonomy and respect for their dignity, without discrimination of any kind; and it encourages social participation in the formulation, execution, follow-up, monitoring and control of food and nutrition security policies and plans at all levels of government. Conclusion: NFNP is thus gender-sensitive, considering women as a vulnerable group to food and nutritional insecurity. However, subsequent NFNP-based programs and actions are limited in this regard since, in practice, they have included partial, apolitical, and sexist arguments when addressing problems of food and nutrition security.
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