There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

We always say at CARE that we would love to see if we can work ourselves out of business.

The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it's also clear that women are also our greatest hope for ending it. We at CARE have long believed that if you change the life of a girl or woman, you don't just change that individual, you change her family and then her community.

There are plenty of risks when we encourage "investment" or commoditization of natural resources, as power dynamics may mean that poor people (who are often marginalized and have less power) are sidelined by more powerful interests when money is involved.

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.