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HungerFREE

Written by  ActionAid   Friday, 09 December 2011

The number of people suffering from hunger is set to reach over 1 billion by the end of this year and climate change could put an extra 50 million people at risk within a decade. 

Small scale farmers already produce half the world's food and most of them are women. With access to training, technology, financial services and markets - the number of people going hungry could be cut by 15%. 

It is vital that we keep up the pressure on governments to deliver on their promise to halve world hunger by 2015. You can take action by signing the Last Famine petition.

We’re continuing to press for increased international support for small-scale women farmers and we're are launching lots of exciting campaign activities around the world while the UN Climate Conference in South Africa is meeting.

You can help by using our video at the top of this page to tell your friends and networks about this campaign. Please share it on Facebook and Tweet about it. We've also got a whole bunch of multimedia goodies for you to play with and share here. The more noise we can generate about women farmers - the more visible this solution will become!

Join us for a HungerFREE world:

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