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.
Mbororo refugee women prepare communal land for the next planting season in Gbiti
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This event will launch Network Paper 73: Response analysis and response choice in food security crises: a roadmap, which provides an in depth discussion of the process of making an appropriate response choice in humanitarian emergencies, and an analysis of the most important factors involved in that choice.
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As the world adjusts to higher food prices ODI studies: changes in international cereal markets; the causes and impacts of higher food prices; potential policies to mitigate harm as well as exploring the links from agriculture to poverty, hunger and malnutrition.
It’s not so long since agricultural commodities markets were an area of specialist knowledge shared only by a few hundred experts across the world. Since the food price spike of 2008, however, interest has gone global and news stories continue to examine future forecasts.