malnutrition

Rural women play key roles in their families, communities and countries, and yet they are often severely disadvantaged, economically, socially and politically.

About 80 percent of the world's poorest and undernourished people live in rural areas. Most depend on smallholder agriculture for their lives and livelihoods.

In the Somali region of Ethiopia, rains have failed for the third consecutive year. The death of many livestock has caused a breakdown in pastoral livelihoods, contributing...