This paper examines the relationship between gender inequality and food security, with a particular focus on women as food producers, consumers, and family food managers.
Beyond use value and exchange value, commodities encapsulate semiotic values too. They function as markers of status, domesticity, social discipline, rebelliousness and so on. These functions are contextual, contingent and change over time.
This paper explores poverty and gender analysis in the hill state of Uttarakhand from the perspective of mountain specificities that are interrelated and have direct bearing on the biophysical and socio-economic aspects of the mountain life.