Reducing Global Hunger and Poverty Starts with Better Nutrition for Women
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“The United States and other countries must support foreign assistance programs that emphasize better nutrition for women and children,” said Lateef. “Maternal mortality and child malnutrition can be reversed by improving the social, economic, and political status of rural women. Progress has been made, but work still remains.”
Half of the world’s small farmers are women. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), if women had the same access to productive resources as men, they could increase yields on their small farms by 20-30 percent—which could lead to 100-150 million fewer people living in hunger.
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