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Food Assistance Outlook Brief for March 2015 (VIDEO)
This content is republished with permission from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET).
Post-2015 Agenda Sustainable Development Targets
This post was quoted directly from the Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform.
Sustainable Development Goals and Targets
Goal 1 . End poverty in all its forms everywhere
1.1 by 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
1.2 by 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
G7 Leaders' Declaration on Food Security
The leaders of the G7 (the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom) met in early June for the annual G7 Summit. The resulting Leaders’ Declaration addressed a variety of global issues, including climate change, trade, and epidemics.
Innovations in Rural and Agricultural Finance: Bundling Development Services with Agricultural Finance
Although agriculture is a huge economic driver in most African countries, many African farmers remain poor. Poverty persists due to a large number of factors, one of which is smallholders’ lack of access to financial and market information and services. In Kenya, a project called DrumNet is working to change that.
Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals
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Financing for Development Conference Outcome Document Focuses on Sustainable Development
In preparation for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development , to be held in July in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a draft outcome report laid out a new global framework for financing sustainable development as part of the post-2015 agenda, aiming to mobilize financial and technical resources for development, strengthen national and international policy environments, close technology gaps, and increase public and private investment in development.
Post-2015 Agenda to Focus on Sustainable Poverty Eradication and Food Security
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Innovations in Rural and Agricultural Finance: Credit Risk Management in Financing Agriculture
Agriculture carries with it a number of inherent risks. Weather, pests and crop disease, and variable local and global markets are all out of a farmer’s control, making it difficult to generate stable income. While farmers in developed countries and large-scale farmers in emerging economies can hedge these risks through the use of credit, insurance, and other financial instruments, developing country farmers typically rely on more “traditional”, and less effective, risk management techniques because they lack access to formal financing options.
First-Ever Global Nutrition Report Launched
Report provides comprehensive narrative on levels of malnutrition across the world, includes 193 country profiles.
A consortium of nations, organizations, researchers, and academics has released the first-ever comprehensive narrative on global health and country-level progress toward reducing malnutrition across the globe.
Food Security Stocks and the Potential Collapse of the Bali Agreement (UPDATED 10/24/14)
Author: Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla