What:
Why women are key to better nutrition and global
poverty eradication – an event organised by the International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD) at the Perugia International Journalism Festival.
When: 15:00-16:00, Saturday, 6 April 2019
Where:
Centro Servizi G. Alessi, Perugia
Who:
Cristina Bowerman, award-winning Italian
celebrity chef, Luca Rosini, journalist and presenter of Uno
Mattina in Famiglia on RAI Uno, Linda Dorigo, photographer, journalist
and film producer, and IFAD's nutrition and development expert, Antonella
Cordone.
Story:
Improved nutrition targeted
at young women can reduce poverty. But it's not enough to look at
improving what they eat. We must also focus on guaranteeing respect for their
rights and those of future generations.
In order to prevent malnutrition from being passed to the next
generation, we need to improve the nutritional status of adolescent girls. This
cannot be done through better nutrition alone, but can be achieved by working
in areas such as education, water, sanitation and hygiene, increasing young
women's access to resources and empowering their economic independence in order
to delay marriage and pregnancy.
At this event we are asking Italian celebrity chef Cristina
Bowerman, leading Italian journalists Luca Rosini and Linda Dorigo, along with
IFAD's Antonella Cordone, how focusing on young women can do so much more to
push forward our efforts to eradicate global poverty.
Links:
For interviews: Jessica Thomas, mob
+393921605992, email j.thomas@ifad.org;
Brian Thomson, mob +39 3666121101, email b.thomson@ifad.org
IFAD has invested in rural people for over 40
years, empowering them to reduce poverty, increase food security, improve
nutrition and strengthen resilience. Since 1978, we have provided US$20.4
billion in grants and low-interest loans to projects that have reached about
480 million people. IFAD is an international financial institution and a
specialized United Nations agency based in Rome – the UN’s food and agriculture
hub.
More about IFAD: www.ifad.org
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