Women's Empowerement and Gender Equality Towards Zero Hunger

Women's empowerment and gender equality provide opportunities and challenges for women to realize the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The achievement strategy of SDGs in relation to the achievement of Objectives 2 (without hunger, zero hunger) can be accelerated by improving nutrition intake while overcoming the cause of hunger and malnutrition, including the problem of income inequality, injustices in access to food and efforts to overcome myths and tabbo on food influenced by social environment and community lifestyle.    

There are some social challenges related to gender equality and the empowerment of women in Indonesia today, among others is the tradition (sex preferences, patrilineal, taboo), culture, women's rights (UU number. 1 year 1974 on Children's marriage), education, Health and nutrition (basic health services coverage or universal health coverage, self-care), clean water and sanitation properly, food fortification and economic problems.

The problem of food security can affect the functioning of women in its own health and the successor generation of the nation. Parents (mothers and fathers) should think about how the child and his family can eat. Therefore, women empowerment needs to be realized immediately, among others educating women to understand the importance of balanced nutrient intake as well as the use of clean water and proper sanitation. Health and education conditions of mothers and socioeconomic families are closely related to the nutritional status of children.

Women and girls have a key role as target beneficiaries as well as perpetrators in terms of strengthening family food security. The low quality of women can affect the quality of its successors, women have reproductive functions as a main basic f function in developing the human resources of the future. At home, women are key actors in the achievement of household food security. Almost all the activities of food security production and household nutrition intake is a woman's duty in the food consumption efforts at the household level, in the hands of women  a food ingredient is planned, processed and prepared as a dish for her family in an effort to improve the quality of food consumed by her family.

So that it is necessary to empower women to build awareness of women and its nature with the sustainability of increasing women's access for food and livelihoods through food-intensive programs and food training programmes that focus on fulfilling basic needs and top priorities. In addition, by making women as the target of food rights recipients or the enhancement of women's access to food and increased access to the scheme of food training programs that will promote economic growth and poverty alleviation.