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.

Citation

Stevano, S., Kadiyala, S., Johnston, D., Malapit, H., Hull, E., & Kalamatianou, S. (2019). Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways. Feminist Economics, 25(3), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2018.1542155

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 1, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Dec 17, 2018
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: Aug 2, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 2, 2018
• Journal: Feminist Economics
• Print ISSN: 1354-5701
• Electronic ISSN: 1466-4372
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 1-22
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2018.1542155
• Keywords: Time use, methodology, gender analysis, feminist research, development
• Additional Information: Additional Information : JEL Codes: B4, C42, N5