Why empower women?

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Sewing workshop, ASI Congo, Stop Hunger award laureate 2022

Backed up by figures, the conclusion is clear: providing women with better education, training, means of production and financial resources will maximize the possibility of eradicating hunger from the world!

WHY EMPOWER WOMEN?
  • Women and girls make up 43% of the agricultural workforce in the global south. In Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa, women and girls produce nearly 70% of the region’s food crops by volume.
  • But women have a 27% higher chance than men of being severely food insecure.  
  • For every dollar made by a man, a woman earns 77 cents, and 90% of that income is invested on their family, compared to 40% for men.
  • Women farmers have significantly less access to, control over, and ownership of land and other productive assets compared to their male counterparts: women account for only 12.8 per cent of agricultural landholders in the world
  • Environmental degradation and climate change have disproportionate impacts on women and children - Globally, women are 14 times more likely than men to die during a disaster. 
  • Women are less likely to be entrepreneurs and face more disadvantages starting businesses: In 40% of economies, women’s early-stage entrepreneurial activity is half or less than half of that of men’s.

 

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Sources:
https://www.care.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Left-Out-and-Left-Behind.pdf
https://stats.unctad.org/Dgff2016/people/goal5/target_5_a.html#:~:text=The%20overall%20global%20share%20of,African%20and%20Middle%20Eastern%20countries
https://www.gemconsortium.org/report/gem-20162017-womens-entrepreneurship-report
https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/women-and-the-sdgs/sdg-13-climate-action
https://www.wfpusa.org/articles/women-in-crisis-top-ways-women-are-hungrier/