Operation Hunger considers women as key agents in the fight against hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition rather than as passive victims in need of assistance. In order to unleash this potential as change agents, they need to be empowered so that they are in the center of accessing relevant assets and services that will help transform tomorrow’s futures.

Better nutrition is a cost-effective way to provide women with important tools to sup-
port their efforts to claim equal rights.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Maternal undernutrition is persistent and an important contributor to morbidity, mortality, and poor birth outcomes including low birth weight

Now more than ever, women-centred sustainable nutrition interventions are critical to making concrete and long-lasting improvements to the status of women across the board. We all have a role to play. We encourage all sectors, companies, civil society and multilateral organisations to show the stage your commitment to improving nutrition. A generation of women depends on it. on is a cost-effective way to provide women with important tools to support their efforts to claim equal rights.

This call to action aims to increase attention to and investment in action for women’s and single-headed women’s household nutrition and food security by empowering women to take control over their nutrition and overall health. Women represent a substantial portion of the malnutrition burden; focused attention will drive strategic and rapid progress towards South Africa’s nutrition targets, and other global goals linked to women’s nutrition and food security.