Gender equality and World hunger – what’s the connection?

Fair play can increase food security

The World Food Program (WFP) insists that achieving gender equality is vital to ending hunger.

Improving food security is at the heart of UN Sustainable Development Goals number 2.

Valerie Guarnieri, from WFP, says giving women access to the same productive resources as men could increase food security for 150 million people. In Nepal the WFP is part of the Rural Women Economic Empowerment (RWEE) program, which also has the support of FAO, IFAD and UN Women.  According to READ MORE