1. Gender and Household Food Security
ENABLING THE RURAL POOR TO OVERCOME POVERTY
Gender and Household Food Security

2. What is IFAD’s Mandate? ENABLING THE RURAL POOR TO OVERCOME POVERTY
Objectives
What is IFAD’s Mandate?
To work with developing countries to...
1. Alleviate Rural Poverty
2. Reduce Food Insecurity and Malnutrition

3. What Does Food Security mean?
ENABLING THE RURAL POOR TO OVERCOME POVERTY
What Does Food Security mean?
IFAD describes Household Food Security as…
“The capacity of households to procure a stable and sustainable basket of adequate food”
Reference: IFAD, Memory Checks for Household Food Security and Gender

4. Community Organization
ENABLING THE RURAL POOR TO OVERCOME POVERTY
Many actions contribute to building Household Food Security and each action requires a gender perspective to hold the structure together
Sustainability
STABILITY
UTILISATION
Health & Sanitation
Caregiving
Practices
Community Organization
Participation
Institution Building
ACCESS
Incomes
Savings & Credit
Extension & Training
Literacy
AVAILABILITY
Land
Water
Technology
Livestock & Fisheries
Environment

5. ENABLING THE RURAL POOR TO OVERCOME POVERTY
For Example…
Many IFAD projects promote actions such as:
Agricultural Extension Services
to increase food availability
Rural Savings and Credit
to improve access to food
Clean Water Supply
to enhance food utilization
Crop Storage Facilities
for stability in food supply

6. ENABLING THE RURAL POOR TO OVERCOME POVERTY
IFAD Projects
Each of these project activities is intended to make a meaningful difference in the lives of the rural poor
“…ultimately, the only criterion by which the value of the Fund can be properly judged is its impact particularly with regard to food security and nutrition on the circumstances of the rural poor.”
(Reference: IFAD Annual Report, 1998)

7. ENABLING THE RURAL POOR TO OVERCOME POVERTY