| Titre : | Food provisioning experiences of ultra poor female heads of household living in Bangladesh. (2011) |
| Auteurs : | MCINTYRE (Lynn) : CAN. Department of Community Health Sciences. Faculty of Medicine. University of Calgary. Calgary. AB. ; Jennifer HATFIELD ; KHALED SHAMSUL ISLAM (.) : BGD. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Bangladesh Secretariat. Dhaka. ; KIRKPATRICK (Sharon) : USA. Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. National Cancer Institute. Bethesda. MD. ; Krista RONDEAU ; SYED NAZMUL HUDA (.) : BGD. Institute of Nutrition and Food Science. Dhaka University. Dhaka. |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 72, n° 6, 2011) |
| Pagination : | 969-976 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Aliment ; Femme ; Tête ; Ménage ; Homme ; Programme santé ; Monde ; Pays voie développement ; ONU ; Pauvreté ; Asie |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS GGooGR0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Ultra poor women in Bangladesh are especially vulnerable to poverty and food insecurity, and they have generally been excluded from recent improvements in hunger and poverty rates in the country. An examination of the food provisioning narratives of 43 ultra poor female heads of household in Bangladesh was conducted in order to deepen understanding of this obstacle to the country's achievement of the First Millennium Development Goal. All participants were the household's sole income provider, had dependent children, and earned less than $1 USD per day. Women were purposively selected based on occupational group, context, and personal characteristics. Ethnographic interviews were conducted in January and February, 2008. Analysis of women's accounts of their daily food routine revealed chronic and pervasive food insecurity punctuated by acute episodes of absolute food deprivation that resulted from seasonal fluctuations in earnings, rising food prices, illness disrupting work, and healthcare costs. Women's accounts of their daily food provisioning experiences suggested compromises in, and trade-offs between, multiple basic needs as a result of inadequate income. Women were further constrained by social norms and gender roles that influenced their ability to work outside the home. Our method of inquiry led us to construct an organizing framework that extends knowledge of ultra poor women in Bangladesh's complex and multi-sphered experience of poverty and food insecurity. Based on these findings, we propose a strategy called whole person development (WPD), which seeks small adjustments to services, programs, and policies based on leverage points identified through in-depth narratives. |
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