"Rural women produce half the world's food and, in developing countries, between 60 and 80 percent of food crops – yet they own only 1 percent of the farmland," Dr. Gayle told the Africa and Global Health Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. "In sub-Saharan Africa, women account for an estimated 70 percent of smallholder farmers and 60 percent globally."
The hearing, focused on recently released details of the administration's Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative, comes on the heels of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization announcement that the number of hungry people around the world has eclipsed 1 billion.
Dr. Gayle reminded members of the subcommittee that a majority of the hungry are women and girls. Help them gain access to information and resources, however, and the world will turn the tide against chronic hunger, she said. - Care.org
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