When you work on international development there’s seldom a shortage of bad news. All the more reason to celebrate the good news when it comes along. And last weekend’s food-security summit delivered some good news for global efforts to combat malnutrition, which blights so many lives and destroys so much potential. The challenge now is to act on the commitments and consign a long-standing disgrace to history by 2030.
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Credit: Liz Wilson
Source: Imperial College London
This ODI and Agriculture for Impact event will launch two new publications discussing how to help smallholder farmers to make better links to markets in Africa.
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Credit: Elizabeth Deacon
Source: IRIN
This ODI, Development Finance International and Oxfam event will launch Government Spending Watch – a new database that tracks what developing country governments are spending on achieving the MDGs.