1.0 link 230907 <![CDATA[Women Can Plow Under A Global Hunger Crisis]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ritu-sharma/women-can-plow-under-a-gl_b_230907.html This article was first published by The Boston Herald on July 6, 2009.


This week, 4 million more people worldwide will go to bed hungry. Seven out of 10 of them are women. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reports that the total number of hungry people has topped 1 billion. The world's poorest citizens can only afford a third as much staple food as they could three years ago.

Last month, while traveling in the West African nation of...

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