NEWS & EVENTS

Australian Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Bob McMullan, said Uganda would receive another 7 billion Uganda shillings ($A4.12 million) through the Australian development assistance program next year.'Under the food security project,...

 In August, two days before the Pacific Islands Forum, the heads of state of the 14 Pacific nations were adamant in saying that they were not ready to negotiate. But by the time the Forum meeting had ended, they had done a complete about turn and agreed to start...

The Forest Investment Program (FIP) will meet for the first time on October 29 in Washington to kickstart the program and discuss the criteria for selecting countries or regions of the world that could benefit most from the effort.Brazil, the Democratic Republic of...

MARK COLVIN: Worldwide food production will have to rise by a staggering 70per cent by the middle of this century if food riots are not to become commonplace.That's the dire warning issued by the United Nations' food agency which says almost 400 million people will...

Published on the eve of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Annual Meetings to be held in Istanbul on 6-7 October, Doing a decent job? IMF policies and decent work in times of crisis, critically examines the situation faced by those most vulnerable in...

The call comes as leaders meet in New York to discuss plans to cut green house gas emission, ahead of the Copenhagen conference in December.The Alliance of Small Island States say they want a new climate agreement at Copenhagen to aim for a more ambitious temperature...

According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the US and European Union have committed 40 times more money to rescuing the global financial crisis than they have to reducing poverty or addressing climate change.But prior to the global...

The group claims most of the estimated $10 billion has been spent on international salaries, administration, and imports.Australia is East Timor's largest donor and gives the country $100 million each year in aid, and the Federal Government is adamant it is not being...

The United States is least at risk followed by France, Canada, Germany and the Czech Republic, according to the Food Security Risk Index, calculated from dozens of variables that determine a country's capacity to feed its people.Food stress jumped toward the top of...

That astronomical estimate, far higher than any previously suggested by the United Nations, comes at a time when developed and developing nations are still deeply divided over who bears the responsibility for shouldering the expense of deploying cleaner energy...

Dr Cynthia Maung visited Canberra last week as part of a delegation of prominent humanitarian workers seeking a review of Australia's aid commitment to Burma. They travelled to the nation's capital to request a moderate increase in the funding received by Cross Border...

Africa contributes very little to the pollution blamed for global warming but its people are likely to be among the hardest hit by droughts, floods and rising sea levels.African leaders have put a $67 billion price tag on the cost of climate change on their...