Dec 14, 2011 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
More than 40 organisations collaborated on the Global Commercial Pressures on Land Research Project, which synthesised 27 case studies, thematic studies and regional overviews.The report also includes the latest data from the ongoing Land Matrix project to monitor...
Dec 6, 2011 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
The discussion paper raises several issues, including the need to improve and advocate using traditional techniques to reduce the dependency on governments and NGOs in times of natural disaster. Agricultural productivity has declined in previous decades...
Nov 21, 2011 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
“The threat of land grabbing has reminded us how vital access to land is for 500 million food-insecure households around the world,” UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food Olivier De Schutter said ahead of this month’s meeting in Rome of the UN Committee on World...
Nov 16, 2011 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
The aid watchdog checked on whether donors publish information about their budgets, their allocation and procurement policies, or audit reports on their own performance. And what about their country programmes? Did they publish their strategies, projected budgets,...
Nov 16, 2011 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
The free trade deal has been given new impetus at today’s APEC meeting, in Hawaii, with United States President, Barak Obama, saying he wants to see a text for an agreement finished in 2012 and by Japan’s decision to join the talks.At this stage, no...
Nov 10, 2011 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
AusAID has moved quickly to implement the ‘Australian Multilateral Assessment’, a process recommended by the Government’s Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness. This process is designed to assess multilateral institutions by ranking them against a...
