Part 2 of our infographic, “Agriculture and the Green Economy“, looks at the problem of 1.4 billion people living in poverty in the world, and agriculture’s potential for reducing that number. Click on the image below to go to the full infographic where you can also embed this image or tweet it.
Part 1 – How
The 2010 Global Hunger Index (GHI) offers a useful multidimensional overview of global, regional and national hunger. The 2010 GHI shows some improvement over the 1990 GHI, falling by almost one-quarter, but overall the index for hunger in the world remains at a level characterised as serious.
The GHI is calculated on 3 dimensions: insufficient availability
In preparation for the UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals next week, three recently published reports on poverty will be presented on Friday 17 September at the UN Headquarters in New York. Poverty reduction is a central figure of the international development agenda, and strategies and policies to address it are multiple.
The event this
A new website, Trade Mark Southern Africa, has just been launched, helping to improve the region’s trade performance and competitiveness.
On 25th January, the 13th session of the Africa Partnership Forum (APF) was held in Addis Ababa to discuss the outcomes of the international summits of 2009, and the prospects for economic growth in Africa in 2010. The APF, whose members consist of African leaders, the G8, the OECD and other development partners, is concerned
