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Innovation to Aid the Horn of Africa: USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Last Thursday, USAID administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah spoke at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs lunchtime talk entitled “America’s role in Food Security and the Horn of Africa Famine.” Administrator Shah began with slides and stories from the amalgam of refugee camps that make up the Dadaab camps in Kenya. The camps, which were built for Read more…
Tagged Africa, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, China, Dadaab, Dr. Rajiv Shah, Ending Hunger, Facebook, famine, Feed the Future Guide, Haiti, Horn of Africa, Hunger, Kenya, Rajiv Shah, United Nations, USAID
A Call for Sustainable Development on Oct. 17, United Nations Poverty Eradication Day
“People living in poverty face increasingly difficult challenges as climate change, environmental degradation and rising food prices threaten their livelihoods and survival.” -United Nations’s Division for Social Policy and Development Today, October 17, is the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP) and this year’s theme is “From Poverty to Sustainability: People Read more…
Tagged Agricultural finance, Alliance to End Hunger, Clients, Climate Change, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Feed the Future Guide, Financial services, Food security, Global Poverty, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, John Magnay, Julie Howard, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Richard Leftley, The Philippines, Tony Hall, United Nations, USAID, Weather-index crop insurance
Breakout Session: Global Food Security: Call to Action
As the hunger crisis persists in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere, the urgent need continues for agricultural development, nutrition assistance and humanitarian response–both short- and long-term. Join this discussion that explores the ethical, economic and global security justifications for a comprehensive and coordinated strategy to address worldwide hunger. Facilitator: Dennis Ripley, senior VP, international Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Alliance to End Hunger, Dennis Ripley, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Feed the Future Guide, Financial services, Food security, Global Poverty, John Magnay, Julie Howard, Loans, Microfinance, OIC2011, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Tony Hall, USAID
Conference LiveBlog: Dr. Julie Howard of USAID’s Feed the Future
Dr. Julie Howard, the U.S. Government’s Deputy Coordinator for Development for the Feed the Future initiative, shares her background, and her perspectives on food security and global hunger from the main stage today at the Opportunity International Conference. Highlights from Dr. Howard’s presentation I have always wanted to work to implement a different kind of Read more…
Watch it Live! Opportunity International Conference Video Stream Starts Friday 8:30 a.m. PST
Unable to join us in person for the Opportunity International Conference? No problem. Just tune in tomorrow-Friday, Oct. 14 at 8:30 a.m. PST–as we stream live video from the conference until Saturday, Oct. 15 at 12:00 p.m. Go to opportunity.org/live to watch it live. Here are just a few of the plenary and breakout session Read more…
Tagged Africa, Alliance to End Hunger, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Draper, Board of Advisors, Daryl Collins, Dikembe Mutombo, dikembe mutombo foundation, Feed the Future Guide, Jeffrey Spector, John Ortberg, Julie Howard, Laura Pincus Hartman, OIC2011, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day, Reeta Roy, Steven Levy, The MasterCard Foundation, Tony Hall, videos
What We’re Reading: Roger Thurow on Bill Gates at the Symposium on Global Agriculture & Food Security
The following post, “Expert Commentary–The Importance of Innovation” by Roger Thurow, was published today on the Chicago Council on Global Affairs‘ Global Food for Thought blog about the Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security that took place today in Washington, D.C.. Bill Gates came to the Chicago Council’s Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Events, Feed the Future Guide, Food security, Global Agriculture and Food Policy, Global Food for Thought blog, Innovation, market linkages, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Poverty, Roger Thurow, sub-Saharan Africa, Technology, Twitter, Washington D.C., what we're reading
Supporting Smallholder Farmers and Laying the Groundwork to End Hunger
To end hunger, we need to grow more food in the developing world. But as we all know, before you plant the seeds, you must prepare the soil. In order to grow more food in the developing world, we must invest in agricultural training, infrastructure and systems that will empower farmers, countries and continents to Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Congress, Ending Hunger, Feed the Future Guide, Food security, Hunger, hunger fast, John Magnay, Opportunity International, President Bush, President Obama, Rajiv Shah, rural savings, Smallholder farmer, Tony Hall, U.S. Ambassador, UN, USAID
Global Food for Thought Blog: “Extending the Reach” by Roger Thurow
The following post by Roger Thurow, “Extending the Reach,” was published on the Global Food for Thought blog on March 4, 2011 as part of Thurow’s Outrage & Inspire series. Thurow is Senior Fellow for Global Agriculture & Food Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting, and co-author of Read more…
Tagged 2010 fall microfinance conference, Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Clients, Community, Ending Poverty, Enough, Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, Feed the Future Guide, Financial services, Global Food for Thought blog, Global Poverty, Kenya, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Poverty, pulitzer prize, Roger Thurow, Rwanda, Smallholder farmer, Tom Vilsack, US Department of Agriculture, USAID, USDA
ONE Blog: A “Tale of Two Budgets” that Could Help Alleviate Global Poverty
The following post was published today on the ONE Blog, entitled “A Tale of Two Budgets” and written by Larry Nowels, it’s about the budgets currently in Congress that could have a significant impact on the U.S.’s support of programs to reduce global poverty. Read the original ONE Blog post here. Over the past 10 days, Read more…
Tagged afghanistan, Congress, Ending Poverty, Feed the Future Guide, Financial services, Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, Global Health Initiative, Global Poverty, Iraq, Loans, Microfinance, Nuulu Nankya, ONE, ONE blog, ONE Campaign, Opportunity International, Pakistan, Poverty, President Obama, Senate, Uganda, US Government, USAID, Women
