Pipes Output http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=b0599853f2a85ba3f18fe5db2888d3c4 Thu, 01 Oct 2015 23:10:34 +0000 http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2013/02/the-united-states-must-be-a-leader-in-development-senator-richard-lugar.php By Jenny Ottenhoff - Full event video Photo album Press release “No superpower that claims to possess the moral high ground can afford to relinquish its leadership in addressing global disease, hunger, and ignorance,” said former US senator Richard Lugar. “Our moral identity is an essential source of national power… We diminish ourselves and our national reputation if we [...] http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=10544 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:10:39 +0000 http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/12/hunger-in-haiti-in-the-aftermath-of-hurricane-sandy.php By Vijaya Ramachandran - This post is joint with Casey Friedman Two months ago, Hurricane Sandy swept through Haiti, bringing winds and heavy rain that wiped away buildings, roads, crops, livestock, and fishing boats. By the time the extent of the damage and the humanitarian needs were understood, Americans had their attention fixed almost entirely on New York and [...] http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=10267 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:22:12 +0000 http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/10/faos-new-and-lower-estimates-of-hunger.php By Vijaya Ramachandran - This post is joint with Casey Friedman The Food and Agriculture Organization’s flagship hunger report came out Monday, featuring a new and improved methodology for estimating the number of undernourished people in the world, and it has two big, good surprises, though there are still hundreds of millions of consistently underfed people. Perhaps nearly as important, curating [...] http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=9722 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:59:28 +0000 http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/08/will-the-next-g-8-summit-really-tackle-hunger.php By Owen Barder - With the Spice Girls back together, temporarily we must hope, for the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games, David Cameron could have been forgiven for making the most of the public’s desire to celebrate the success of the Olympics.  Instead he risked being the party pooper, by convening a summit in Downing Street about hunger with Vice [...] http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=9173 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:58:10 +0000 http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/one-campaign-reminds-the-g8-that-food-security-must-be-a-top-priority.php By Vijaya Ramachandran - This is a joint post with Julie Walz. Just ahead of the G8 summit on May 19 at Camp David, a new report by the ONE Campaign highlights the opportunity to focus on real and sustained investments in African agriculture that could impact the lives of millions.  The report includes very timely recommendations for the heads of [...] http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8389 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:07:20 +0000 http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/03/interested-in-global-food-security-two-new-acronyms-you-should-know.php By Kimberly Ann Elliott - As we approach the May G8 summit in Chicago, the June G20 meeting in Los Cabos, and Rio+20 in June, agriculture and food security promise to be high on the international agenda; and once again, we will be awash in jargon that is rife with acronyms indecipherable to the uninitiated. Some acronyms are impossible for [...] http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8310 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:08:18 +0000 http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/tough-love-bill-gates-calls-on-the-donor-community-to-do-better-on-food-security.php By Vijaya Ramachandran - This is a joint post with Peter Timmer and Julie Walz. “If you care about the poorest, you care about agriculture,” declared Bill Gates in a high-profile speech in Rome yesterday, at a meeting of the Global Council of the International Fund for Agricultural Development.  IFAD is one of the three Rome-based UN food agencies; the [...] http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8143 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:41:21 +0000 http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/09/cgd-non-resident-fellow-peter-timmer-wins-the-2012-leontief-award.php By Vijaya Ramachandran - I was delighted to learn yesterday that Tufts University’s Global Development And Environment Institute, will award its 2012 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought to Michael Lipton of Sussex University and to world-renowned agricultural expert and CGD Non-Resident Fellow Peter Timmer.  This year’s award, titled “The Global Food Crisis and the Future [...] http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=7208 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:19:31 +0000 http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/06/food-aid-for-development-does-it-make-sense-with-feed-the-future.php By Kimberly Ann Elliott - The Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa held an event on Capitol Hill on Friday to launch an excellent report by Stephanie Mercier, a former Senate Ag Committee staffer. I had the pleasure of serving as a discussant.  Though the report title focuses on food aid and the next farm bill, the report [...] http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6101 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:04:07 +0000 http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/04/gafsp-u-s-led-food-security-fund-could-push-better-risk-management-at-world-food-program-reducing-hunger.php By Vijaya Ramachandran - An illustrious lineup was on hand today at the U.S. Treasury for the launch of the somewhat awkwardly named Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), a multidonor trust fund that the global leaders promised to create at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh last September. The new fund’s goal: to help countries reduce poverty and [...] http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=3907 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:52:38 +0000