Food security and Covid-19: Recognising women’s leadership Over half the world’s farmers and food producers are women. A study will look at their experiences in the covid crisis.
Women farmers harvesting rice in Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines, 2015 (International Labour Organisation/Flickr) Published 8 Mar 2021 15:00 0 Comments
“Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life” – this recognition was a central focus of the 1996 World Food Summit. Today, Covid-19 has compromised food security across the world. There has been an 82% increase in acute food insecurity compared to pre-Covid needs. In Southeast Asia and the Pacific, food insecurity has steadily risen throughout 2020. An estimated 51.1 million people (an