Hacking Hunger
Hacking Hunger
World Food Program USA
Episode 10: Empower a Woman, Feed a Generation
13 minutes Posted Sep 6, 2016 at 12:04 pm.
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If women farmers had the same access to resources like capital, markets and training as their male counterparts, the number of hungry people worldwide could drop by nearly 20 percent, according to the United Nations. M.J. talks to Lisa Curtis, co-founder of Kuli Kuli Foods, about how building a U.S. market for a “miracle crop” called moringa is empowering women farmers in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities to grow, sell and consume what some believe could be the next kale or quinoa.