There is a rich literature devoted to the role women play in ensuring the food security of the
household and other household members. However, relatively little attention has been paid …

Food insecurity is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods
or limited or uncertain ability to acquire foods in socially acceptable ways. The study …

ObjectiveWe investigated factors accounting for the consistently higher levels of household
food insecurity reported by women in Canada. DesignTwo cycles of the Canadian …

Food insecurity is a pressing public health concern in many developing countries. Despite
widespread interest in the sociocultural determinants of food insecurity, little is known about …

Eight hundred million people in the developing world currently face food insecurity, and the
challenge of meeting their food and nutrition needs is likely to become greater in the years …

In addition to Intra-household resource allocations and internal dynamics of decision-
making, gendered perceptions on household food security play a critical role in households' …

Prior research shows that food insecurity is associated with being overweight in women, with
few and ambiguous results in men. Little is known about the characteristics and roles of …

is on the rise. A food crisis is hurting the poor all over the world, hitting the landless and
women the hardest. It struck even before the current global economic meltdown and rising …

ObjectiveThe present review aimed to identify and synthesize literature on household food
insecurity with respect to whether the respondent was male or female. DesignA systematic …

Until recently there was lacking a common food security measure and the necessary data to
study the individual-level determinants of food insecurity around the world. In 2014, the Food …