Food Aid Fight: World Vision battles Oxfam within the Iron Triangle
Maybe you’ve heard of the nearly trillion-dollar U.S. Farm Bill.
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The promise and pitfalls in efforts to reform US foreign food aid
Haitians Receive Boxes of USAID Food AidUSAID Food aid reforms came under the spotlight last month when the Obama Administration…
Land rights an antidote against ‘land grabbing,’ but maybe not for poverty
There is a direct link between land rights and land grabs, says the IMF. Countries with better governance and land rights laws are less likely to agee to large-scale land purchases by foreign investors. That makes sense, but the additional claim that smallholder land ownership directly increases family farm productivity and income is now coming under question.
The latest trend in the fight against poverty and inequity: Good news!
By Tom Murphy, Humanosphere correspondent east Telling good news, success stories, is the latest trend for many in the aid…
Seattle pushes women’s rights & private sector to fight poverty
It’s International Human Rights Day and you may be surprised to learn that the modern notion of human rights is…
Novartis vs. India: Patents vs. the poor?
Flickr, Brooks Elliott One of the biggest, thorniest dilemmas in global health is coming to a head in India. (And…
The fight over America giving itself foreign aid
One of the most inefficient and frequently counterproductive aspects of American foreign aid is our tendency to give aid to…
Oxfam and ONE Campaign call on Congress to stop playing games over hunger
Malnourished child in SomaliaUnited Nations photo Congress is looking at reforming its agricultural subsidies programs known generally as the Farm…
Will the next Africa hunger crisis be prevented?
There is a looming food crisis in the Sahel, a geographic ‘belt’ that stretches across central Africa from the Atlantic…
Land grab: Ethiopia boots 70,000; Brits displace 20,000 in Uganda
Aid organizations are trying to call attention to a little-noticed but massive plague spreading across Africa that is destroying communities,…