WUNRN

http://www.wunrn.com

 

http://www.fao.org/sd/fsdirect/fbdirect/FSP001.htm

Women produce between 60 and 80 percent of the food in most developing countries and are responsible for half of the world's food production, yet their key role as food producers and providers and their critical contribution to household food security is only now becoming recognized. FAO studies confirm that while women are the mainstay of small-scale agriculture, farm labour force and day-to-day family subsistence, they have more difficulties than men in gaining access to resources such as land and credit and productivity enhancing inputs and services.

http://www.wfp.org/our-work/preventing-hunger/focus-women/women-hunger-facts

Women are a little over half the world's population; but in many parts of the world, especially in Asia and South America, they are more likely to go hungry than men.

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Direct Link to 6-Page Oxfam Report Executive Summary:

http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/growing-a-better-future-010611-summ-en.pdf

 

Direct Link to Full 39-Page Report:

http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/growing-a-better-future-010611-en.pdf

 

http://www.oxfam.org/en/grow/reports/growing-better-future

 

GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM - FOOD CRISIS - REPORT - WOMEN

 

The global food system works only for the few – for most of us it is broken. It leaves the billions of us who consume food lacking sufficient power and knowledge about what we buy and eat and the majority of small food producers disempowered and unable to fulfil their productive potential.

The failure of the system flows from failures of government – failures to regulate, to correct, to protect, to resist, to invest – which mean that companies, interest groups, and elites are able to plunder resources and to redirect flows of finance, knowledge, and food.

This report describes a new age of growing crisis: food price spikes and oil price hikes, devastating weather events, financial meltdowns, and global contagion. Behind each of these, slow-burn crises smoulder: creeping and insidious climate change, growing inequality, chronic hunger and vulnerability, the erosion of our natural resources.

Based on the experience and research of Oxfam staff and partners around the world and, Growing a Better Future shows how the food system is at once a driver of this fragility and highly vulnerable to it, and why in the twenty-first century it leaves 925 million people hungry.

The report presents new research forecasting price rises for staple grains in the range of 120–180 per cent within the next two decades, as resource pressures mount and climate change takes hold.

Growing a Better Future supports a new campaign with a simple message: Another future is possible, and we can build it together.