People's community kitchens in Peru: women's activism pro urban food security

Immink, M.D.C.

Ecology of Food and Nutrition 40(6): 699-705

2001


ISSN/ISBN: 0367-0244
DOI: 10.1080/03670244.2001.9991678
Document Number: 308465
The women's community kitchen movement in low-income areas of Lima and Callao has, over the last twenty-five years, played an important role in contributing to household food security and improved nutrition. It represents a case of grass-roots activism with food and nutrition aims, which at the same time appears to have important human development outcomes for women, as well as beneficial effects on community development.

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