 The most vulnerable households that are food insecure are households that are headed by women and the focus should be given to those women to ensure that they are self-sufficient in food. In the Gambia where I am from we are a population of 2.6 million and out of that 2.6 million over 650,000 are food insecure and out of that over 250,000 are acutely food secure and mostly in the central region of the country and mostly the most acutely self-insufficient in food are those households that are headed by female and what one needs to do is to allocate more resources to ensure that they have food to eat not only that but because most of them are farmers and depend on the food that they grow to feed themselves to ensure that they have the right land to grow what they eat to be able to feed not only themselves but their families and in extension their communities. The problem here is because they do not own the land so they keep moving from land to land and land is mostly owned by heads of households or male members of the community so I think focus should be given to give them places where they can grow what they eat. Recently we've just ratified a loan which is not much but it is to sample soil where they can recognize where and what to grow in the country and I should give applaud to the government for having that initiative because that loan has been there for over three years and with this new minister that has come in he brought it to Parliament to ensure that it is ratified for access to those funds to be able to do the sampling and support the people of the Gambia to know where what to grow in what type of soil. My message to the world is to spend less in weapons and to spend more in food to ensure food security because the amount that is spent in wars is so much it could have been diverted to food to ensure that everybody in the world goes to bed with their stomachs full.