Food Plight

October 16 is World Food Day, a day of action that, according to the website (http://www.worldfooddayusa.org/what-is-wfd), began in 1979 and "celebrates the creation of the Food and Agriculture Association of the United Nations" in 1945. In this crucial area, as in so many others in the world, women are given much responsibility and few resources. In fact, contends, Bettina Luescher, a communications officer for the World Food Programme in Geneva, "If women farmers had the same access to loans, land, seed and selling their harvests on the markets, we think we could lift some 100 to 150 million people out of hunger": https://uk.news.yahoo.com/world-food-day-2015-female-230000174.html#fdTK5ww
   Dr. Jeannette Gurung has worked for decades to empower women farmers and food preparers, especially those in poor, rural areas of the world. The organization she founded in 1984 and now heads, WOCAN (Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management), is a global network of primarily women working to support women farmers and others along the food chain by linking them with professional women, thereby giving them a voice and facilitating organizations' transition to gender equality: http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2013/06/mother-earth.html