ActionAid publication ‘Failing the rural poor: Aid, agriculture and the Millennium Development Goals’ highlights the particularly harsh effect of the current global food crisis on rural women
The 2008 report by ActionAid suggests that, since women and girls are overrepresented among poor and excluded people, the food crisis is having a particularly harsh impact on them. According to the FAO, even before the current crisis women made up 60% of the chronically hungry.