I’m blogging on how civil society might strategically engage with the G20. Here are two areas in which the G20 could take a significant step forward towards ending poverty and ensuring economic...
In a major shift in its biofuels policy, the European Commission today announced that it was limiting the use of biofuels made from food crops in its renewable energy targets. But late changes to the...
The paper provides an overview of what caused high and volatile prices in international food commodity markets, the major causes of national food price increases, the winners and losers within...
“We own the land and use it for different activities. At anytime the government can make the decision to transfer my land to another user”.This is a quote from a community in Kisarwe, Tanzania, which...
Last week in Rome, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) announced that there are almost 870 million people chronically undernourished in the world. Controversially though, the FAO also...
Large-scale land acquisitions by investors, which are often called ‘land grabs’, can deprive rural women and communities of their livelihoods and land, increasing their food insecurity. This report...
As this year’s World Food Day approaches, the African continent is faced with a familiar story. Africa’s food situation has not improved and today, even more people are threatened with starvation....
She was a victim of the food crisis that threatened the lives of millions of people across East Africa a year ago. To her, help came in time and she survived. I have met six-year-old Sadia Abdullah,...
At Rio’s Earth Summit, another chance to take action to address hunger and climate change passes us by. Friday marked the end of the Rio +20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Given the low expectations...
1992 was a time when it seemed fairly futuristic to talk about environment degradation, climate change, green economy but twenty years later with ever more alarming statistics on poverty and hunger...
