Gender difference in nutrition and health in Nigeria ’s agricultural households: the role of corporate social responsibility in oil-producing communities

Gender difference in nutrition and health in Nigeria’s agricultural households: the role of corporate social responsibility in oil-producing communities Joseph Ikechukwu Uduji, Elda Nduka Okolo-Obasi International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the multinational oil companies’ (MOCs) corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in Nigeria. Its special focus is to investigate the impact of the global memorandum of understanding (GMoU) on gender difference in nutrition and health in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. This paper adopts a survey research technique, aimed at gathering information from a representative sample of the population, as it is essentially cross-sectional, describing and interpreting the current situation. A total of 800 women respondents were sampled across the rural areas of the Niger Delta region. The results from the use of a combined propensity score matching and logit model indicate that CSR of the MOCs using GMoU model has made significant success in closing the gender difference in nutrition and health in agricultural household in the Niger Delta region. The findings also show that mainstreaming gender in nutrition within the field of agriculture is a critical aspect of strengthening gender and nutrition/health linkages, in recognition of women’s substantial contribution to agriculture production ...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: research