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ActionAid welcomes the initiative announced by the European Commission today to increase development aid to promote access to sustainable, renewable energy for the poorest and most excluded people in the world, particularly women.

The European Union is marginalising anti-poverty objectives within its new foreign policy arm, the External Action Service (EEAS), outlines a new report today by CONCORD, the European confederation of Relief and Development NGOs.

As G20 leaders gather in Cannes on Thursday, they will discuss the Eurozone crisis, but must also grapple with the huge challenges facing developing countries. 

Massive subsidies in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy are putting local farmers in poor countries out of business, reveals a new report by ActionAid. Milking the poor shows how subsidised EU milk is causing unfair competition to poor farmers in Bangladesh, suppressing investment in the dairy industry and undermining EU investments in food security.

The first G20 Agriculture Ministers’ meeting has failed to take the strong decisions needed to avert the looming food crisis. 

Launched in Brussels on 19th May, this year’s AidWatch report – Challenging self-interest: Getting EU aid fit for the fight against poverty says that: 

(Dakatcha Woodlands, Kenya) A biofuel currently considered a green, renewable alternative to oil could cause up to six times more carbon emissions than fossil fuels, a study by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, ActionAid and Nature Kenya has revealed.