"Women produce more than half the world's food....They own around one percent of the land."

- Food And Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Photojournalist Phil Borges lives in Seattle, and his recent work, Women Empowered, is simply and profoundly moving. I picked it up at a friend's tonight and found myself slipping out of conversation, focusing solely on women's faces and stories. Madeline Albright writes in her forward: "This is a book about hope, based on reality."

It's worth checking out.