Why Empowering Women Farmers Will Help Fight Hunger Giving poor women warmers more tools can bring down the number of hungry in the world by 150 million, said WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran on Thursday, highlighting a central theme at Empowering Rural Women, an event organized by WFP and UN Women on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Other speakers at the event also highlighted the role that women farmers can play in defeating … [Read more...]
Why Empowering Women Farmers Will Help Fight Hunger
September 27, 2011 by Team Celebration
Filed Under: AFRICA, ASIA, CENTRAL AMERICA, EURASIA, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AMERICA, OCEANIA, SOUTH AMERICA, WOMEN GENDER EQUITY ISSUES, WORLD EVENTS, WORLD ISSUES Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, ABC's award-winning anchor, Anne Itto, Christiane Amanpour, Director of SEWA, empower rural women, Executive Director Josette Sheeran, India, Michelle Bachelet, Reema Nanavaty, the United Nations, UN, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, WFP, Why Empowering Women Farmers, Will Help Fight Hunger
