When I think of hunger for a group of people I don’t split the people up between men and women or adults and children. I just think of a mass of people starving. But not so. These statistics on women and hunger may surprise you ad they did me:

• 60% of the worlds chronically hungry people are women and girls
• And yet 8 out of 10 people involved in farming in Africa, and 6 out of 10 in Asia are women
• In one of three households in the world, women are the sole breadwinners
• Babies born to hungry mothers are 20% more likely to die in infancy and those who survive face a childhood of continual malnourishment and being victims of diseases
• A woman or girl will re-invest 90% of her income into her family while a man will only re-invest 30% to 40%

So a strategy is being rolled out, selectively and by hunger program, to target the women and girls. The data seems to support this as the best way to positively effect the whole problem. I’m not sure this is a universal approach, but, given the extent of the problem it appears to be a new angle in process that might make a real dent.

You can read more at Causecast at the article: Empowering Women as an Effective Way to Fight Global Hunger

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