Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways

Stevano, Sara; Kadiyala, Suneetha; Johnston, Deborah; Malapit, Hazel; Hull, Elizabeth; Kalamatianou, Sofia

Abstract

There is a resurgence of interest in time-use research driven, inter alia, by the desire to understand if development interventions, especially when targeted to women, lead to time constraints by increasing work burdens. This has become a primary concern in agriculture-nutrition research. But are time-use data useful to explore agriculture-nutrition pathways? This study develops a conceptual framework of the micro-level linkages between agriculture, gendered time use, and nutrition and analyzes how time use has been conceptualized, operationalized, and interpreted in agriculture-nutrition literature on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The paper argues that better metrics, but also conceptualizations and analytics of time use, are needed to understand gendered trade-offs in agriculture-nutrition pathways. In particular, the potential unintended consequences can be grasped only if the analysis of time use shifts from being descriptive to a more theoretical and analytical understanding of time constraints, their trade-offs, and resulting changes in activity.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 25, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Dec 17, 2018
• Publication Date: Jul 3, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jan 14, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 14, 2019
• Journal: Feminist Economics
• Print ISSN: 1354-5701
• Electronic ISSN: 1466-4372
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 1-22
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2018.1542155
• Keywords: economics and econometrics, general business, management and accounting, arts and humanities (miscellaneous), gender studies
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/855880
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2018.1542155
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Feminist Economics on 17th December 2018, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2018.1542155.
• Contract Date: Jan 14, 2019