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6 Things You May Not Know About Women, Girls & Hunger
Investing in women and girls will play a huge role in ending global hunger. Get to know why they’re at the forefront of the development agenda and how everything from goats to the promise of a school meal are being used to maximize their potential to change the world....
Rural Women Are Essential to the Struggle Against Hunger
Rural women make up more than a quarter of the world’s population and 43 percent of the world’s agricultural labor force, according to UN Women....
The mother is the last to eat in developing countries
More than 120 million women in developing countries are underweight. Given that women are typically in charge of their household's food production, experts say this female-hunger is due to gender inequality. #IWD...
Bill And Melinda Gates Pledge $170 Million To Women’s Economic Empowerment
“When money flows into the hands of women who have the authority to use it, everything changes.”...
VIDEO: Four Famines-Fragility, Resilience, and the Role of International Development
More than 20 million people in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, and Nigeria are facing famine conditions and possible starvation. It has been called the largest humanitarian crisis the world has seen in decades. Watch to learn more....
‘Price of conflict is too high’: hunger at crisis levels in eight countries
War driving up acute food insecurity on a vast scale, report finds, with Yemen, South Sudan and Syria worst affected...
First 1,000 days of child’s life are the most important
At last year's World Economic Forum, young children's health was a part of the agenda, because the first 1000 days are most important to children's development and our collective economic success. This article, part of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting, explains why. What’s the most i...
Can Planet Earth Feed 10 Billion People?
This opinion editorial looks at how we can feed a growing world. Even though the global population in 2050 will be just 25% higher than it is now, typical projections claim that farmers will have to boost food output by 50 to 100%....
Food aid 2018: the never-ending crisis
This special IRIN report focuses on those who are most food insecure – those on the frontline of humanitarian emergencies who don’t know where their next meal is coming from....
Counting the Beans: New Tool Measures the True Cost of Food
A new U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) tool is highlighting the true cost of food by presenting variation in the cost of food around the world. The tool, called Counting the Beans, includes a data-driven, open-access online interface to help both experts and the general public quantify the relative c...
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