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One of our members, Andrea Moraes, will be teaching an online course at Ryerson University this fall.
As the title suggests, the course "Gender and Food Security" explores the relationship between gender and food security as well as related issues: gender roles and female identity, intrahousehold resource control, discrimination in labour markets, and the role of food in the lives of women. The importance of agency and the effects of public policies and actions on gender equity are explored through analyses of national and international examples.
Throughout the world, women and children are numerically the most affected by malnutrition and general food insecurity. On the other hand women are largely responsible for making food available to their families, increasingly becoming the majority of the workers, worldwide, in the agricultural production and industrial processing of food for sale and consumption, and are predominant in the field of food security as professionals, either as nutritionists, social workers or other health professionals. Yet, a disproportionately small number of women reach positions in decision-making bodies, be it at local, regional, national or international levels.
Andrea Moraes holds a Ph.D. in Rural Sociology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her dissertation was about the participation of women in a rainwater-harvesting program in the Brazilian Sem-Arid region. She worked as coordinator for the Sister Watersheds project (Capacity Building for Water Management in Sao Paulo, Brazil) at York University's Faculty of Environmental Studies until 2008. Her interests are Brazil, Feminism, Gender and Development in the Third World, Public Participation on Water and Food Security.
This course is part of the postgraduate certificate program in Food Security and is open to undergraduate and graduate students. Enrolment remains open until the course starts on September 10, 2011.
For more information, please go to http://ce-online.ryerson.ca/ce/default.aspx?id=2102 or contact the academic coordinator, Reg Noble at [email protected]
Photo by Ana Elizabeth Araniva
As the title suggests, the course "Gender and Food Security" explores the relationship between gender and food security as well as related issues: gender roles and female identity, intrahousehold resource control, discrimination in labour markets, and the role of food in the lives of women. The importance of agency and the effects of public policies and actions on gender equity are explored through analyses of national and international examples.
Throughout the world, women and children are numerically the most affected by malnutrition and general food insecurity. On the other hand women are largely responsible for making food available to their families, increasingly becoming the majority of the workers, worldwide, in the agricultural production and industrial processing of food for sale and consumption, and are predominant in the field of food security as professionals, either as nutritionists, social workers or other health professionals. Yet, a disproportionately small number of women reach positions in decision-making bodies, be it at local, regional, national or international levels.
Andrea Moraes holds a Ph.D. in Rural Sociology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her dissertation was about the participation of women in a rainwater-harvesting program in the Brazilian Sem-Arid region. She worked as coordinator for the Sister Watersheds project (Capacity Building for Water Management in Sao Paulo, Brazil) at York University's Faculty of Environmental Studies until 2008. Her interests are Brazil, Feminism, Gender and Development in the Third World, Public Participation on Water and Food Security.
This course is part of the postgraduate certificate program in Food Security and is open to undergraduate and graduate students. Enrolment remains open until the course starts on September 10, 2011.
For more information, please go to http://ce-online.ryerson.ca/ce/default.aspx?id=2102 or contact the academic coordinator, Reg Noble at [email protected]
Photo by Ana Elizabeth Araniva