"Governments must adopt food security strategies that empower women as this is an effective way to reduce hunger and malnutrition, a United Nations expert said" Monday, the U.N. News Centre reports. "'Sharing power with women is a shortcut to reducing hunger and malnutrition, and is the single most effective step to realizing the right to food,' the special rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva," the news service writes. "De Schutter said one of the measures that must be implemented immediately is the removal of all discriminatory laws and practices that prevent women from accessing farming resources such as land, inputs, and credit," and he "called for women to be relieved of the burdens of care responsibilities in the home through the provision of adequate public services such as childcare, running water, and electricity," according to the news service (3/4).