World leaders agreed today to support European efforts to integrate European banking sectors in a bid to support governments affected by the ongoing Eurozone crisis. Heads of state had earlier...
It’s time for another beach resort G20 summit – this time it’s Live from Los Cabos, Mexico. Only seven months ago, world leaders gathered in the beach resort town of Cannes, France. Now they’re back...
You can’t listen to negotiations for much more than 15 minutes here at the Rio+20 summit before you hear the expression “I am in your hands”. It’s not an expression of love between negotiators, but...
Representatives of world governments are gathering this week in Rio de Janeiro for the final round of negotiations prior to next week’s Earth Summit. The gathering, commemorating twenty years since...
This paper was commissioned by ActionAid and serves as a think-piece to build our understanding of the gendered implications of the recent wave of large-scale land acquisitions and investments,...
ActionAid International, ACORD and Oxfam with support from other partners convened the African Women’s Land Rights Conference, from the 30th May to the 2nd June 2011 in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss...
"Bio fuel is this marvellous idea that we should make food not in order to eat it but to burn it" - Raj Patel, the author of Stuffed and Starved*“We don’t drive cars or tractors. Then why should we...
This is a presentataion Neil Wakins, Director of Policy & Campaigns, AA USA, gave on the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) at the Civil Society Policy Forum of the IMF/WB...
Asia is a major food-producing region, yet houses the highest number of malnourished people in the world. This is an unacceptable paradox. Besides contributing more than half the global cereal...
