Why are we starting up?
Forschungen des Europäischen Instituts für Gleichstellungsfragen, shows that women and specially single mothers, wie sie fast machen 85 % aller Einelternfamilien in der EU, are more vulnerable to food insecurity and its health consequences. There are several factors that contribute to this vulnerability, however access to labour market, lowpaid and insecure jobs are the most important factors that make women and children at risk of poverty or social exclusion. Von Eurostats in 2020, shows that female unemployment rate is up to 55% above the EU average but also women are highly represented in part-time and short-term work earning 16% less per hour than the average, in Südeuropa. SAVE THE CHILDREN reported that the highest relative child poverty in the South of Europe rates between 33.3% und 29.5% für Kinder unter 18. Furtermore WHO reported in 2016 Das 1 im 3 - 11 Jahre alt, waren bereits übergewichtig oder fettleibig von 2014 und über 60% of children who are overweight before puberty will be overweight in early adulthood. Diese Tatsachen, jedoch, are in exact contradiction considering France, Italien, Spanien, Griechenland und Portugal, als die größten landwirtschaftlichen Produzenten von Frischwaren in der EU.