Dr. Louise Sperling is the world’s foremost expert on seed aid.  Throughout her extensive field work Dr. Sparling has sought to negotiate the often-tenuous balance between providing much needed relief and doing no harm to …

Chatham House’s Royal Institute for International Affairs is internationally respected as one of the leading centres for independent analysis in the world. This Chatham House publication, The Feeding of the Nine Billion: Global Food Security …

This short film, Making Markets Work in Africa, by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) provides a quick overview of the challenges faced by African farmers in participating in agricultural markets.  The video is presented …

Sector-wide approaches (SWAps) were introduced to the agricultural sector in the 1990s in an effort to coordinate governmental budgets and activities.  The aim of SWAs was to increase efficiency and effectiveness by coordinating stakeholder activities …

Many within the food policy community eagerly waited to see if the Obama administration would lead the US in a new direction for its food policies as the underpinning policies of the USA related to …

IFPRI’s Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a landmark resource for tracking the trends of world hunger.  The title of the 2009 index is The Challenge of Hunger: focus on financial crisis and gender inequality. In …

DEFRA has recently released this report which is a developed analysis of the key factors contributing to the 2007/08 agricultural price spikes.This report considers these factors and explains the impacts and policy implications of the …

Part 3 – Rachel Slater & Steve Wiggins

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Part 4 – Discussion/Q&A

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Part 2 – Jonathon Coulter

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