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Women Hardest Hit By Food Crisis

Sun, 07/20/2008 - 16:39
Submitted by Carlin Ross

As if genital excision, domestic violence, and the Bush Administration's prohibition against condom distribution through US-funded UN programs weren't enough, women are now the hardest hit victims of the food crisis.

Soaring prices for food and fuel have pushed more than 130 million poor
people across vast swaths of Africa, Asia and Latin America deeper into
poverty in the past year, according to the U.N. World Food Program (WFP). But while millions of men and children are also hungrier, women
are often the hungriest and skinniest. Aid workers say malnutrition
among women is emerging as a hidden consequence of the food crisis.