“If we have any kind of weather problem in the northern hemisphere, we don’t have enough corn.” This was the alarming verdict of Alberto Weisser, chief executive of Bunge, during last Thursday’s presentation of the first quarter results for the US agribusiness and food multinational.
Senegal MDG plan ignores climate change
Senegal’s progress review of its Poverty Reduction Strategy overlooks the risks posed by climate change.
Renewables enjoy spring surge of superlatives
The arrival of nature’s season of renewal in the northern hemisphere has been greeted with a burst of timely announcements of renewable energy schemes around the world, many of them claiming to be bigger and better than anything before.
Unfriend the 1000 economists
What could have possessed advocates of the Financial Transaction Tax to engage 1000 economists to sign a letter for the G20 meeting?
Glencore flotation punctured by G20 ministers
Ambitious plans by the world’s largest commodities trader to raise capital in the London and Hong Kong markets may be at risk from the threat of international regulatory scrutiny of the sector.
Zambian phones let off the Libyan hook
Disclosure of the holdings of the Libyan Investment Authority is causing some embarrassment. But sympathy may be more appropriate for the Zambia’s telecommunications company.
Where are the friends of ILO?
The International Labour Organization has published a detailed response to its blacklisting as “poor value for money” by the UK Multilateral Aid Review
Stream of climate consciousness from Nigeria
A series of 5 Climate Factsheets unhesitatingly predict the impacts of climate change in Nigeria.
Bangladesh looks both ways on human rights
In its most recent MDG Progress Report Bangladesh has explicitly analysed the connection between human rights and poverty in the context of the MDGs.
African economic growth fails the hungry
Latest world polls conducted by Gallup find that 57% of sub-Saharan Africans periodically lack sufficient money to feed their families. Gallup says the recent surge in global food prices could make matters worse.