Women play a key role in food security in certain parts of Africa. Cereal production in the western regions of outstrips the energy requirements of the local population, yet a third of the children in those regions suffer from delayed growth, a sign of chronic malnutrition that is at least partly linked to an unbalanced diet. The economist Alissia Lourme Ruiz has demonstrated that in those regions, within farming households, dietary diversity primarily dépends on whether women are economically and financially independent, rather than on the level of cereal production. A few explanations, in pictures, to mark International Women's Day, 8 March 2016.
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