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Women can cure what ails us, says UN

by Peter Gilstrap
Posted May 12th, 6:00am | News

If you thought children are our future, think again. According to the United Nations, women are they key to, well, pretty much fixing everything that’s wrong in the world. “We need to do much more...to empower women,” UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro told the Women’s Foreign Policy Group in New York. “Women can drive the Green Revolution in Africa. They hold the key to breaking out of the food crisis; to educating the young; to peace, progress and prosperity.”

Migiro also offered that females can contribute “the most” (meaning more than men, presumably) to solving the global food crisis that has seen prices rise 55% from June 2007 to last February, not to mention an 87% rise in the price of rice in March. An interesting and perhaps surprising fact: Women represent up to 80% of farmers in the developing world, yet their access to land, capital, and technology is very limited, a major contribution to the effects of the food crisis. If women did have access, apparently the worst effects of the global food crisis could have been prevented.

All well and good; who doesn’t want peace, progress and prosperity? The only thing the UN needs to figure out now is exactly how to give the ladies all that precious access. 

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