"When you put a project in women's hands, women deliver"
[FAO/G.Bizzarri]  Food security in times of crisis: rural women
speak out   Analucy Bengochea, Honduras  Analucy Bengochea is
coordinator of the Garifuna Emergency Committee, which was
formed in 1998 after Hurricane Mitch devastated the Garifuna
indigenous community in north-eastern Honduras.  Our committee
recently held a consultation with rural communities in Honduras
and found that families are now eating only two meals a day.
From what we see, the economic crisis has brought greater
poverty and increased food insecurity. Many farmers grow food
for the family and have very little left to sell.  Women farmers
are in a very difficult situation - they cannot grow crops
because they have no land or money. They need loans, but the
banks demand guarantees they can't give. In many cases, women
find themselves as heads of their households because the men
have left to find work elsewhere. The responsibility of women
keeps increasing as they have to find ways