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Securing land rights helps empower girls by helping reduce their vulnerability to poverty, food-insecurity, gender-based violence, HIV/AIDs, and the problems associated with early marriage.
Isobel Coleman: The Week at the Clinton Global Initiative Isobel Coleman 2010
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Securing land rights helps empower girls by helping reduce their vulnerability to poverty, food-insecurity, gender-based violence, HIV/AIDs, and the problems associated with early marriage.
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For most of the decade before the recession, the percentage of U.S. households coping with food-insecurity in the USDA survey fluctuated around 11%.
Hunger Afflicts More U.S. Households Scott Kilman 2010
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In case you're wondering, 35 million Americans suffered from "food-insecurity" at least some of the time last year.
Shelley Lewis: USDA: Hunger In America? Let's Call it "Low Food Security" 2008
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According to the first-ever Map the Meal Gap Child Food Insecurity study, which used numbers provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 2009, the food-insecurity rate for children is 28.9 percent in Carroll County, Mo., and 29.2 percent in Bates County.
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For the 26 counties in and around Kansas City that the Harvesters food bank serves, child food-insecurity rates range from 18.5 percent to 29.2 percent.
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For the 26 counties in and around Kansas City that the Harvesters food bank serves, child food-insecurity rates range from 18.5 percent to 29.2 percent.
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According to the first-ever Map the Meal Gap Child Food Insecurity study, which used numbers provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 2009, the food-insecurity rate for children is 28.9 percent in Carroll County, Mo., and 29.2 percent in Bates County.
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According to the Feeding America study, the child food-insecurity rate in Wyandotte County is 27.5 percent, the fourth highest in Harvesters' service area.
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The question is similar to one asked by the Census Bureau in collecting data for the annual food-insecurity report. logged in to post a comment.
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