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on global justice, climate change, cricket, living in Winchester and other trials of patience

Tag: food security

Global postcode lottery for school meals

Despite promises by G8 leaders to prioritise food security, the World Food Programme is in trouble with its budget for 2009. Cuts in school feeding programmes highlight the contrast with school meals provided in richer countries.

Published August 3, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged food security, global divide, malnutrition, UK

Climate adaptation or recycled development?

Climate change adaptation plans in developing countries often appear very similar to conventional development programmes. Could this become a source of confusion for donors?

Published April 11, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged beta, climate adaptation, complex systems, food security

Economic stimulus enough to end global hunger

ich governments are investing unimaginable sums to stimulate their own economies. These sums could have ended global hunger years ago.

Published December 15, 2008
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged beta, economic stimulus, food security

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Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things