Abstract
Rural women in the developing and transition countries play a fundamental role in producing, purchasing, processing,
providing, storing and utilizing food to their families and thereby contribute to the household food and nutrition security. This
paper investigates the women‟s dynamic role in the agricultural activities and intra household food/nutrition security in rural
areas of the Faisalabad district, Punjab province of Pakistan. More specifically it analyzes the association between
demographic characters of the respondents and their role in household food security. Multistage random sampling technique
was used for the purpose of data collection. One Tehsil (sub-district) from District Faisalabad was selected through simple
random sampling technique. One union council from this Tehsil was selected randomly. Three villages out of five villages
and 40 respondents from each selected villages were selected randomly. Thus in total 120 women were interviewed from the
selected households. Significantly positive relationship was found between women age and education with intra-household
food and nutrition security. Though rural women have an active role in food utilization which is one of the main pillars of
food security, yet majority of the women were facing problems in household food and nutrition security particularly
affordability and access to food.
