Pathways and Associations between Women's Land Ownership and Child Food and Nutrition Security in Pakistan.

ABSTRACT: Women's land ownership plays a noteworthy role in improving various development indicators, including her own wellbeing and children's food and nutrition security. However, the literature linking women's access to land rights to the nutritional security of children in Pakistan is limited, even though it is a country facing enormous challenges of childhood malnutrition and gender discrimination. This paper contributes to the existing literature on the benefits of empowering women by studying the association and pathways between women's land rights and child nutrition, using the 2012-2013 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey. The ordinary least squares (OLS) regression results indicate that women's individual land ownership and women's autonomy in large-scale family purchases have a positi

SUBMITTER: Rehman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6765811 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature